Isaiah 50:3

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).

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³ I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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