Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

I clothe [the] heavens [with] darkness, and I {make} their covering sackcloth."

New American Standard Bible

“I clothe the heavens with blackness
And make sackcloth their covering.”

King James Version

I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

Holman Bible

I dress the heavens in black
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.

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I clothe
לבשׁ לבשׁ 
Labash 
Usage: 111

the heavens
שׁמה שׁמים 
Shamayim 
Usage: 420

with blackness
קדרוּת 
Qadruwth 
Usage: 1

and I make
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

שׂק 
Saq 
Usage: 48

References

American

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Context Readings

Israel's Sin And The Servant's Obedience

2 Why was there no man when I came, no one who answered when I called? {Do I lack the strength to save}? Or [is there] no power in me to deliver? Look! by my rebuke I dry up [the] sea; I {make} [the] rivers a desert; their fish stink because there is no water, and they die because of thirst. 3 I clothe [the] heavens [with] darkness, and I {make} their covering sackcloth." 4 The Lord Yahweh has given me [the] tongue of pupil, to know how to help [the] weary [with] a word. He awakens {morning by morning}, awakens an ear for me to listen as [do] the pupils.

Cross References

Revelation 6:12

And I watched when he opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake took place, and the sun became black like sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood,

Exodus 10:21

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the heavens so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt and so that [a person can] feel darkness."

Psalm 18:11-12

He made darkness his hiding place; all about him his covering [was] a darkness of waters, {thick clouds}.

Matthew 27:45

Now from the sixth hour, darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour.

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