Isaiah 50:3
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
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Referenced Verses
- Rev 6:12 : 12 And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood;
- Exod 10:21 : 21 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
- Ps 18:11-12 : 11 He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies. 12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
- Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
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- Job 38:9-102 verses80%
9 When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,
10 And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,
- Ezek 32:7-82 verses76%
7 And when I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord Jehovah.
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2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? 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.
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28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.
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5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
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15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.
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12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
- Amos 8:9-102 verses72%
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
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11 He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
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11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword unto them.
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11 Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.
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12 And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
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15 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
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30 And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness [and] distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.
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2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;
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15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
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20 Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
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8 He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
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7 I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.
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30 My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are burned with heat.
- Isa 13:10-112 verses70%
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
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22 The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
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18 By [God's] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
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32 He covereth his hands with the lightning, And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.
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9 He incloseth the face of his throne, And spreadeth his cloud upon it.
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17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
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8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
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2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge?
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16 Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
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5 Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Jehovah?
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9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:
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13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought; that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth--Jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name.
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4 The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught.
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6 He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
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14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
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9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick darkness was under his feet.
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34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee?
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8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.
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8 For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.
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10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick darkness was under his feet.
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15 I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
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1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;
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3 and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that it is I, Jehovah, who call thee by thy name, even the God of Israel.
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10 Who is among you that feareth Jehovah, that obeyeth the voice of his servant? he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light, let him trust in the name of Jehovah, and rely upon his God.