Isaiah 50:3
Strong's Lexicon
I clothe
אַלְבִּ֥ישׁ (’al·bîš)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3847: 1) to dress, wear, clothe, put on clothing, be clothed 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to put on clothes, be clothed, wear 1a2) to put on, be clothed with (fig.) 1b) (Pual) to be fully clothed 1c) (Hiphil) to clothe, array with, dress

the heavens
שָׁמַ֖יִם (šā·ma·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8064: 1) heaven, heavens, sky 1a) visible heavens, sky 1a1) as abode of the stars 1a2) as the visible universe, the sky, atmosphere, etc 1b) Heaven (as the abode of God)

in black
קַדְר֑וּת (qaḏ·rūṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6940: 1) darkness, gloom

and make
אָשִׂ֥ים (’ā·śîm)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7760: 1) to put, place, set, appoint, make 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to put, set, lay, put or lay upon, lay (violent) hands on 1a2) to set, direct, direct toward 1a2a) to extend (compassion) (fig) 1a3) to set, ordain, establish, found, appoint, constitute, make, determine, fix 1a4) to set, station, put, set in place, plant, fix 1a5) to make, make for, transform into, constitute, fashion, work, bring to pass, appoint, give 1b) (Hiphil) to set or make for a sign 1c) (Hophal) to be set

sackcloth
וְשַׂ֖ק (wə·śaq)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8242: 1) mesh, sackcloth, sack, sacking 1a) sack (for grain) 1b) sackcloth 1b1) worn in mourning or humiliation 1b2) same material spread out to lie on

their covering.
כְּסוּתָֽם׃ (kə·sū·ṯām)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3682: 1) covering, clothing 1a) covering, clothing 1b) covering (for concealment)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”

Young's Literal Translation
I clothe the heavens [with] blackness, And sackcloth I make their covering.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I dress the heavens in black and make sackcloth their clothing.

New American Standard Bible
"I clothe the heavens with blackness And make sackcloth their covering."

King James Bible
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
I clothe the heavens with darkness and make sackcloth its covering."

New Living Translation
I dress the skies in darkness, covering them with clothes of mourning."

English Standard Version
I clothe the heavens with blackness and make sackcloth their covering.”

New American Standard Bible
"I clothe the heavens with blackness And make sackcloth their covering."

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I dress the heavens in black and make sackcloth their clothing.

International Standard Version
I clothe the skies with darkness and make sackcloth their covering."

NET Bible
I can clothe the sky in darkness; I can cover it with sackcloth."

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
I clothe the heavens with blackness, And sackcloth I make their covering.
















Cross References
Revelation 6:12
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;

Isaiah 13:10
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

Jeremiah 4:28
For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.

Isaiah 1:1
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Isaiah 50:2
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 stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

Isaiah 50:1
Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

Isaiah 49:26
And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

Isaiah 50:4
The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

Isaiah 50:5
The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.

Isaiah 50:6
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
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