Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

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.

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

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 Who knows why I have come, and no one is here? I called and no one answered. Is My hand shortened at all so 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 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. 4 The Lord Jehovah has given Me the tongue of the learned, to know to help the weary with a word. He wakens morning by morning, He wakens the ear to hear as the learned.

Cross References

Revelation 6:12

And when He had opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.

Exodus 10:21

And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, so that one may even feel the darkness.

Psalm 18:11-12

He made darkness His secret place, His pavilion around Him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

Matthew 27:45

And from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

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