Isaiah 50:3

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I clothe the heavens with darkness and make sackcloth their covering.

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  • Rev 6:12 : 12 And I watched as the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black like sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon turned red like blood.
  • Exod 10:21 : 21 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness may spread over Egypt—a darkness that can be felt."
  • Ps 18:11-12 : 11 He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind. 12 He made darkness His covering, His canopy around Him—the dark rain clouds of the skies.
  • Matt 27:45 : 45 From noon until three in the afternoon, darkness came over all the land.

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    2Why, when I came, was there no one? Why, when I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand too short to redeem? Do I have no power to save? Look, at my rebuke I dry up the sea; I turn rivers into a desert, so their fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

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    28Because of this, the earth will mourn, and the heavens above will grow dark. For I have spoken, I have purposed, and I will not relent or turn back from it.

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    5Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.

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  • 2 Sam 22:12
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    12He made darkness his covering around him, dense clouds of water and thick clouds of the skies.

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    9'On that day,' declares the Lord God, 'I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.'

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    11I wept and fasted, but it brought reproach on me.

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    11It is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of waters covers you.

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    12In that day the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, called you to weeping, wailing, shaving your heads, and wearing sackcloth.

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    15The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will withdraw their brightness.

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    30On that day, they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and distress; even the light is darkened by the clouds.

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    8He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; He has shrouded my ways with darkness.

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    30My skin grows black and peels off, and my bones burn with fever.

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