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 I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.
- Exod 10:21 : 21 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, 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 around 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 its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
10 marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
- Ezek 32:7-82 verses76%
7 When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
8 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.
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2 Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't 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 the earth will 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 on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
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15 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.
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12 He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
- Amos 8:9-102 verses72%
9 It will happen in that day," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.
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11 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
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11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
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11 or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
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12 In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
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15 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
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30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.
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2 He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
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15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
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20 Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
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8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
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7 I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
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30 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
- Isa 13:10-112 verses70%
10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
11 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.
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22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"
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18 By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
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32 He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
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9 He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on 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 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
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23 I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
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2 "Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
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16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes 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? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
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9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
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13 For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name."
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4 The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
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6 He has 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. Thick darkness was under his feet.
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34 "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?
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8 For this clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us.
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8 For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.
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10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
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15 I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
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1 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"
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3 I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.
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10 Who is among you who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God.