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I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
“I clothe the heavens with the blackness [of storm clouds] And make sackcloth [of mourning] their clothing.”
I clothe the heavens with [the] blackness [of murky storm clouds], and I make sackcloth [of mourning] their covering.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
I dress the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heavens with darkness and cover them with funeral clothing.
I dress the heavens in black to mourn and make their covering sackcloth.”
I make the sky turn dark like the sackcloth you wear at funerals.”
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and will make sackcloth their covering.
I can make the skies dark. I can cover the skies in darkness as black as sackcloth.”
I can cause the sky to become dark, as if I have covered it with sackcloth.’
I can clothe the heavens with blackness, and I can cover them with sackcloth.
I clothe the heavens with blackness and make sackcloth their covering.”
I clothe the heavens with blackness and make sackcloth their covering.”
I can ·make the skies dark [L clothe the skies/heavens in darkness; Rev. 6:12]; I can make ·them black like clothes of sadness [L sackcloth their covering].”
I clothe the heavens with darkness, and make a sack their covering.
I clothe the heavens in darkness and cover them with sackcloth.
I can make the sky turn dark, as if it were in mourning for the dead.”
I dress the heavens in black and make sackcloth their clothing.
I can make the skies dark. I can make them black like clothes of sadness.”
I clothe the skies with darkness and make sackcloth their covering.”
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heavens with blackness And make sackcloth their covering.”
I clothe the heavens with darkness, and I make their covering sackcloth.”
I am the one who sends the darkness out across the skies.
God says: “Can you produce your mother’s divorce papers proving I got rid of her? Can you produce a receipt proving I sold you? Of course you can’t. It’s your sins that put you here, your wrongs that got you shipped out. So why didn’t anyone come when I knocked? Why didn’t anyone answer when I called? Do you think I’ve forgotten how to help? Am I so decrepit that I can’t deliver? I’m as powerful as ever, and can reverse what I once did: I can dry up the sea with a word, turn river water into desert sand, And leave the fish stinking in the sun, stranded on dry land . . . Turn all the lights out in the sky and pull down the curtain.” * * *
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heavens in darkness and cover them with sackcloth.
I clothe the heavens in black, and make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, And make sackcloth their covering.”
“I clothe the heavens with blackness And make sackcloth their covering.”
Did I not clothe the heavens in black and cover them with sackcloth?
I can make the skies dark; I can make them black like clothes of sadness.”
I can clothe the sky in darkness; I can cover it with sackcloth.”
I make the sky turn dark. It looks as if it’s dressed in clothing sad people wear.”
I clothe the heavens with darkness and make sackcloth its covering.”
I clothe the heavens with darkness and make sackcloth its covering.’
I clothe the heavens with blackness, And I make sackcloth their covering.”
I clothe the heavens with darkness. I make cloth made from hair its covering.”
I dress the skies in darkness, covering them with clothes of mourning.”
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heavens with blackness and make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe Shomayim with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and make sackcloth their covering.”
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and make sackcloth their covering.”
I clothe the heavens with blackness and make sackcloth their covering.”
I can dress the heavens with blackness and trade its velvet skies for the scratchy clothes of mourning.
I clothe the heavens with blackness. I make sackcloth their covering.”
I shall clothe (the) heavens with darknesses, and I shall set a sackcloth (to be) the covering of them.
I clothe the heavens [with] blackness, And sackcloth I make their covering.
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