Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
I clothe the heavens with blackness, And sackcloth I make their covering.
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."
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 Wherefore have I come, and there is no one? I called, and there is none answering, Hath My hand been at all short of redemption? And is there not in me power to deliver? Lo, by My rebuke I dry up a sea, I make rivers a wilderness, Their fish stinketh, for there is no water, And dieth with thirst. 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, And sackcloth I make their covering. 4 The Lord Jehovah hath given to me The tongue of taught ones, To know to aid the weary by a word, He waketh morning by morning, He waketh for me an ear to hear as taught ones.
Cross References
Revelation 6:12
And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and lo, a great earthquake came, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood,
Exodus 10:21
And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Stretch out thy hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness over the land of Egypt, and the darkness is felt.'
Psalm 18:11-12
He maketh darkness His secret place, Round about Him His tabernacle, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Matthew 27:45
And from the sixth hour darkness came over all the land unto the ninth hour,