Isaiah 45:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.”
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“I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.”
King James Version · Public Domain“I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, doing all these things.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 45:7 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 1:3And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
- Genesis 1:17God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth,
- 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.”
- Exodus 14:20so that it came between the camps of Egypt and Israel. The cloud was there in the darkness, but it lit up the night. So all night long neither camp went near the other.
- 2 Kings 19:25Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
- Job 2:10“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.
- Job 10:13Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:
- Job 34:29But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,
- Psalms 8:3When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
- Psalms 29:11The LORD gives His people strength; the LORD blesses His people with peace.
- Psalms 74:16The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
- Psalms 75:7but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.
- Psalms 104:20You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
- Ecclesiastes 7:13Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
- Isaiah 10:5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
- Isaiah 31:2Yet 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.
- Isaiah 44:24Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,
- Jeremiah 13:16Give 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.
- Jeremiah 18:7At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.
- Jeremiah 31:35Thus 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:
- Jeremiah 51:20“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
- Lamentations 3:38Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
- Ezekiel 14:15Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,
- Ezekiel 32:8All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness upon your land,’ declares the Lord GOD.
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