Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
And make sackcloth their covering.”
King James Version
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Holman Bible
and make sackcloth their clothing.
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
for I came, and no one showed himself; I called, and no one answered. Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink because there is no water and die for thirst.
3
And make sackcloth their covering.”
Cross References
Revelation 6:12
And I saw when he had opened the sixth seal, and, behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Exodus 10:21
And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
Psalm 18:11-12
He made darkness his hiding place; in his tabernacle round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the heavens.
Matthew 27:45
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.