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Bible in Basic English

And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light.

New American Standard Bible

“And when I extinguish you,
I will cover the heavens and darken their stars;
I will cover the sun with a cloud
And the moon will not give its light.

King James Version

And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

Holman Bible

When I snuff you out,
I will cover the heavens
and darken their stars.
I will cover the sun with a cloud,
and the moon will not give its light.

International Standard Version

When I extinguish your lights, I'll cover the heavens and darken their stars. I'll cover the sun with a cloud and the moon won't reflect its light.

A Conservative Version

And when I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars of it dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

American Standard Version

And when I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

Amplified


“And when I extinguish you,
I will cover the heavens [of Egypt] and darken their stars;
I will cover the sun with a cloud
And the moon will not give its light.

Darby Translation

And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars thereof black; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

Julia Smith Translation

And I covered the heavens in my quenching thee, and I darkened their stars; and I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not enlighten with its light

King James 2000

And when I shall put you out, I will cover the heaven, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And I will cover [you] at extinguishing your heavens, and I will make dark their stars, and I will cover [the] sun with the cloud, and [the] moon will not give its light.

Modern King James verseion

And when I put you out, I will cover the heaven and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

When thou art put out, I will cover the heaven, and make his stars dim. I will spread a cloud over the Sun, and the moon shall not give her light.

NET Bible

When I extinguish you, I will cover the sky; I will darken its stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not shine.

New Heart English Bible

When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

The Emphasized Bible

And when I quench thee, I will cover the heavens, And obscure their stars, - The sun - with a cloud, will I cover, And the moon shall not shed her light;

Webster

And when I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

World English Bible

When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

Youngs Literal Translation

And in quenching thee I have covered the heavens, And have made black their stars, The sun with a cloud I do cover, And the moon causeth not its light to shine.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
כּבה 
Kabah 
Usage: 24

I will cover
כּסה 
Kacah 
כּסה 
Kacah 
Usage: 152
Usage: 152

the heaven
שׁמה שׁמים 
Shamayim 
Usage: 420

and make
קדר 
Qadar 
Usage: 17

the stars
כּוכב 
Kowkab 
Usage: 37

קדר 
Qadar 
Usage: 17

the sun
שׁמשׁ 
Shemesh 
Usage: 134

with a cloud
ענן 
`anan 
Usage: 87

and the moon
ירח 
Yareach 
Usage: 26

shall not give
אור 
'owr 
Usage: 42

References

Watsons

Context Readings

A Lament For Pharaoh, King Of Egypt

6 And the land will be watered with your blood, and the waterways will be full of you. 7 And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light. 8 All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord.

Cross References

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.

Joel 2:31

The sun will be made dark and the moon turned to blood, before the great day of the Lord comes, a day to be feared.

Matthew 24:29

But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved:

Isaiah 34:4

And the heavens will be rolled together like the roll of a book: and all their army will be gone, like a dead leaf from the vine, or a dry fruit from the fig-tree.

Ezekiel 30:3

For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud; it will be the time of the nations.

Joel 2:2

For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.

Joel 3:15

The sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining.

Exodus 10:21-23

And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark.

Job 18:5-6

For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.

Proverbs 13:9

There is a glad dawn for the upright man, but the light of the sinner will be put out.

Ezekiel 30:18

And at Tehaphnehes the day will become dark, when the yoke of Egypt is broken there, and the pride of her power comes to an end: as for her, she will be covered with a cloud, and her daughters will be taken away prisoners.

Amos 8:9

And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

Mark 13:24

But in those days, after that time of trouble, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light,

Revelation 6:12-13

And I saw when the sixth stamp was undone, and there was a great earth-shock; and the sun became black as haircloth, and all the moon became as blood;

Revelation 8:12

And at the sounding of the fourth angel, a third part of the sun, and of the moon, and of the stars was made dark, so that there was no light for a third part of the day and of the night.

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