Isaiah 50:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 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 to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness which may be felt.
  • Ps 18:11-12 : 11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion around him were dark waters and 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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