Isaiah 50:3 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

I clothe the heavens [with] blackness, And sackcloth I make their covering.

English ASV

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

English Amplified

I clothe the heavens with [the] blackness [of murky storm clouds], and I make sackcloth [of mourning] their covering.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

I clothe the heavens with [the] blackness [of murky storm clouds], and I make sackcloth [of mourning] their covering.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

I dress the heavens in black and make sackcloth their clothing.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

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

English EASY 2024

I can cause the sky to become dark, as if I have covered it with sackcloth.’

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

I can make the skies dark. I can cover the skies in darkness as black as sackcloth. "

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

English GNT (Good News Translation)

I can make the sky turn dark, as if it were in mourning for the dead.”

English God's Word - GW 1995

I clothe the heavens in darkness and cover them with sackcloth.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

I dress the heavens in black and make sackcloth their clothing.

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

I clothe the heavens with blackness And make sackcloth their covering.”

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

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

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

"I clothe the heavens with blackness And make sackcloth their covering."

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

I clothe the heavens in mourning, and make sackcloth their vesture.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

I can clothe the sky in darkness; I can cover it with sackcloth.”

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

I make the sky turn dark. It looks as if it is dressed in black clothes."

English NIV

I clothe the sky with darkness and make sackcloth its covering."

English NKJ 1982

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

English NLT

I am the one who sends darkness out across the skies, bringing it to a state of mourning."

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

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

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

I dress the sky with darkness and shroud it with sackcloth.”

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

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

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

I am the one who sends the darkness out across the skies.“

English Tyndale 1537

As for heaven, I clothe it with darkness, and put a sack upon it.

Isaiah 50:3 — Compare Translations