Israel’s Sin

Isaiah 50:3

In 11 translations

BSB: I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”
KJV: I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
WEB: I clothe the heavens with blackness. I make sackcloth their covering.”
ASV: I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
LSV: I clothe the heavens [with] blackness, || And I make their covering sackcloth.”
YLT: I clothe the heavens [with] blackness, And sackcloth I make their covering.
DBY: I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
DRC: I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and will make sackcloth their covering.
GNV: I clothe the heauens with darkenesse, and make a sacke their couering.
JPS: I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
LXXE: I will clothe the sky with darkness, and will make its covering as sackcloth.

Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

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From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Revelation 6:12And when I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,
Psalms 18:11–12He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him. From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced— hailstones and coals of fire.
Exodus 10:21Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”
Matthew 27:45From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).