Isaiah 50:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Rev 6:12 : 12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
  • Exod 10:21 : 21 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine 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 secret place; his pavilion round about him [were] dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies. 12 At the brightness [that was] before him his thick clouds passed, hail [stones] and coals of fire.
  • Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

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