Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
and make sackcloth their clothing.
New American Standard Bible
And make sackcloth their covering.”
King James Version
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
International Standard Version
I clothe the skies with darkness and make sackcloth their covering."
A Conservative Version
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
American Standard Version
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Amplified
“I clothe the heavens with the blackness [of storm clouds]
And make sackcloth [of mourning] their clothing.”
Bible in Basic English
By me the heavens are clothed with black, and I make haircloth their robe.
Darby Translation
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Julia Smith Translation
I will put darkness upon the heavens, and I will put sackcloth their covering.
King James 2000
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I clothe [the] heavens [with] darkness, and I {make} their covering sackcloth."
Modern King James verseion
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
As for heaven, I clothe it with darkness, and put as it were a sack upon it.
NET Bible
I can clothe the sky in darkness; I can cover it with sackcloth."
New Heart English Bible
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering."
The Emphasized Bible
I clothe the heavens with gloom, And, of sackcloth, make I their covering.
Webster
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
World English Bible
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering."
Youngs Literal Translation
I clothe the heavens with blackness, And sackcloth I make their covering.
Interlinear
Labash
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 50:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Sin And The Servant's Obedience
2
Why was there no one to answer when I called?
Is My hand too short to redeem?
Or do I have no power to deliver?
Look, I dry up the sea by My rebuke;
I turn the rivers into a wilderness;
their fish rot because of lack of water
and die of thirst.
and make sackcloth their clothing.
the tongue of those who are instructed
to know how to sustain the weary with a word.
He awakens Me each morning;
He awakens My ear to listen like those being instructed.
Cross References
Revelation 6:12
Then I saw Him open
Exodus 10:21
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, and there will be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.”
Psalm 18:11-12
dark storm clouds His canopy around Him.
Matthew 27:45
From noon until three in the afternoon