“ I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. ”
I clothe the heavens with blackness - With the dark clouds of a tempest - perhaps with an allusion to the remarkable clouds and tempests that encircled the brow of Sinai when he gave the law. Or...
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make (f) sackcloth their covering. (f) As I did in Egypt in token of my displeasure, ( Exodus 10:21 ).
Isaiah 49:22 to Isaiah 50:3 . The Promises to Zion Elaborated and Confirmed. At a sign from Yahweh the nations shall with solicitous care bring back the exiles to Zion. Kings and queens shall te...
3. I clothe the heavens with blackness. He mentions also that thick darkness which was spread over all Egypt during the space of three days. ( Exodus 10:22 .) At that time the heaven was clo...
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Thus saith the Lord— In the preceding period of the last chapter, a doubt respecting the great enemy of the church was removed: but another doubt exercised the afflicted church about the same time...
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. I clothe the heavens with blackness - another of the judgments on Egypt to be repeated hereafter on the last enemy of...
1. The children of Zion ( Isaiah 49:20-21 ) are addressed. Their servitude is not irrevocable; Jehovah has not formally repudiated Zion ( Deuteronomy 24:1 ); nor, though they had to learn by discip...
Help for Those Who Trust in Him Isaiah 50:1-11 It is impossible for God to put away the soul that clings to Him in penitence and faith. Heaven and earth may be searched, but no bill of divorce...
Proceeding, Jehovah challenges the people to prove their assertion that they have been forsaken by producing the writing in which God has divorced His people, and declares to them that the reason of...
The Prophet Hosea whose ministry was not many years before that of Isaiah hath made use of the same figure of the married state, to represent the Mediator's union with his people; and here the Prophe...
I clothe the heavens with blackness ,.... With gross and thick darkness; perhaps referring to the three days' darkness the Egyptians were in, Exodus 10:12 , or with thick and black clouds, as in te...
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. Ver. 3. I clothe the heavens with blackness. ] I did so in that three days' darkness in Egypt, Exo 10:21-22 and shall do s...
Wherefore , &c. The general accusation, delivered in the last words, he now proves by particular instances: When I came was there no man. How comes it to pass, that, when I sent to you by my s...
Expostulations with Israel. B. C. 706. 1 Thus saith the L ORD , Where is the bill of y...
I clothe the heavens with blackness; or, I will or can clothe &c. What I once did in Egypt, when I drew black curtains before all the heavenly lights, and caused an unparalleled and amazing d...
Is There No One To Answer When Yahweh Has The Power and the Will To Deliver? ( Isaiah 50:1-3 ). Yahweh now rebukes His people. He points out that their failure to enjoy His blessings cannot be lai...
SINFUL ISRAEL SELF-RUINED Isaiah 50:1-3 . Thus saith the Lord, Where is the hill, &c. Those who have professed to be the people of God, and yet seem to be severely dealt with, are apt to com...
Isaiah 50:2-4 These words could have been spoken only by the Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. They place before our thoughts: I. His Divine power and glory. Power is naturally...
Isaiah 50:1 . Thus saith the LORD, There is always something weighty coming when you have this preface. If God speaks, we ought to hear with reverence, with attention. Isaiah 50:1 . Where is t...
Isaiah 50:1 . Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement. That is, of Jerusalem, gone over to the worship of Baal. God did not divorce the synagogue, till she had first committed adultery, the...
Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement? Jehovah and unfaithful Israel These Israelites went to the only kind of law with which they were familiar, and borrowed from...
EXPOSITION This chapter seems to be made up of short fragments, which the collector, or collectors, of Isaiah's writings regarded as too precious to be lost, and which they consequently here thr...
The Defection of Israel Atoned for by the Servant of Jehovah. The opening of this chapter continues the picture of the Lord and His Church, represented by Zion, His bride, whom He seeks with the f...
Exodus 10:21 ; Matthew 27:45 ; Psalms 18:11 ; Psalms 18:12 ; Revelation 6:12
I clothe — When it is necessary to save my people, I cover them with thick and dark clouds black as sackcloth, Revelation 6:12 .