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

God’s Servant Depends on God

The Lord God gave me the ability to teach, so now I teach these sad people. Every morning he wakes me and teaches me like a student. The Lord God helps me learn, and I have not turned against him. I will not stop following him.

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I clothe the heavens with darkness(A)
    and make sackcloth(B) its covering.”

The Sovereign Lord(C) has given me a well-instructed tongue,(D)
    to know the word that sustains the weary.(E)
He wakens me morning by morning,(F)
    wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.(G)
The Sovereign Lord(H) has opened my ears;(I)
    I have not been rebellious,(J)
    I have not turned away.

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