Isaiah 45:7 “I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and creat…”

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

World English Bible

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.

American Standard Version

I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.

Geneva Bible 1599

I forme the light and create darkenes: I make peace and create euill: I the Lord doe all these things.

Darby Translation

forming the light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil: I, Jehovah, do all these things.

Young's Literal Translation

Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I [am] Jehovah, doing all these things.'

Bible in Basic English

I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

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Cross references

“form”

Jeremiah 31:35 Psalm 104:20–23 Psalm 8:3 2 Corinthians 4:6 Genesis 1:3–5 James 1:17

Jeremiah 31:35 · BSB

Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:

Psalm 104:20–23 · BSB

You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.

Psalm 8:3 · BSB

When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

2 Corinthians 4:6 · BSB

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Genesis 1:3–5 · BSB

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

James 1:17 · BSB

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.

“create darkness”

Amos 4:13 Jeremiah 13:16 Nahum 1:8 Ezekiel 32:8 Exodus 10:21–23 Joel 2:2

Amos 4:13 · BSB

For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”

Jeremiah 13:16 · BSB

Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.

Nahum 1:8 · BSB

But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness.

Ezekiel 32:8 · BSB

All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness upon your land,’ declares the Lord GOD.

Exodus 10:21–23 · BSB

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”

Joel 2:2 · BSB

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.

“I make Peace”

Amos 3:6 Psalm 75:7 Job 2:10 Jeremiah 51:20 Amos 5:6 Acts 4:28

Amos 3:6 · BSB

If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?

Psalm 75:7 · BSB

but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.

Job 2:10 · BSB

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

Jeremiah 51:20 · BSB

“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.

Amos 5:6 · BSB

Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

Acts 4:28 · BSB

They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.

Also

Isaiah 31:2

Isaiah 31:2 · BSB

Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6so that all may know, from where the sun rises to where it sets, that there is none but Me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.

8Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.

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