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I clotheאַלְבִּישׁthe heavensשָׁמַיִםwith blackness,קַדְרוּתandוְI makeאָשִׂיםsackclothשַׂקtheir covering.”כְּסוּתָם
Isaiah 50:3
Study it in the app“I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.””
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 50:3, word by word
- I clotheאַלְבִּישׁalbish
clothe
To put clothes on someone else, sometimes as an honor or a help.
Where else “albish” appears- the heavensשָׁמַיִםshamayim
sky
The high space seen above the earth, where the birds, clouds, sun and stars are.
Where else “shamayim” appears- with blacknessקַדְרוּתkadrut
blackness, mourning dress
Blackness, darkness as of mourning.
Where else “kadrut” appears- I makeאָשִׂיםasim
make
To turn something into another: "I will turn him into a nation".
Where else “asim” appears- sackclothשַׂקsak
sackcloth
Rough cloth worn in mourning.
Where else “sak” appears- their coveringכְּסוּתָkesuta
covering
The cloak someone wraps up in against the cold and sleeps in.
Where else “kesuta” appears
The context
2Why did I come, and there was no one; I called, and there was no one to answer? Is my hand really too short to ransom? Or is there no power in me to deliver? Look, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink for lack of water, and die of thirst.
3 · This verse (above)
4Adonai YHWH has given me a tongue of disciples, to know how to sustain the weary with a word; he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear like disciples.