KJV King James Version
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].
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Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
WEB World English Bible
I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
ASV American Standard Version
I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I am Jehovah, doing all these things.’
Surrounding context — Isaiah 45
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
5 I [am] the LORD, and [there is] none else, [there is] no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that [there is] none beside me. I [am] the LORD, and [there is] none else.
7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].
8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! [Let] the potsherd [strive] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
10 Woe unto him that saith unto [his] father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
יוֹצֵ֥רH3335 · ya.tsarto form: formedאוֹר֙H216 · orlightוּבוֹרֵ֣אH1254 · ba.rato createחֹ֔שֶׁךְH2822 · cho.shekhdarknessעֹשֶׂ֥הH6213 · a.sahto make: doשָׁל֖וֹםH7965 · sha.lompeaceוּב֣וֹרֵאH1254 · ba.rato createרָ֑עH7451 · rabad: harmfulאֲנִ֥יH589 · a.niIיְהוָ֖הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDעֹשֶׂ֥הH6213 · a.sahto make: doכָל־H3605 · kolallאֵֽלֶּה׃ סH428 · el.lehthese
Cross-references
Ecclesiastes 7:13-14Consider the work of God: for who can make [that] straight, which he hath made crooked?Amos 3:6Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done [it]?Psalm 75:7But God [is] the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.Job 2:10But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.Isaiah 31:2Yet he also [is] wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.Amos 4:13For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what [is] his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, [is] his name.Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.Jeremiah 31:35Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name:Jeremiah 51:20Thou [art] my battle axe [and] weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;Nahum 1:8But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.Amos 5:6Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour [it], and [there be] none to quench [it] in Bethel.Acts 4:28For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.Psalm 104:20-23Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep [forth].Ezekiel 32:8All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.Exodus 10:21-23And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness [which] may be felt.Ezekiel 14:15-21If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:Jeremiah 18:7-10[At what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy [it];Job 34:29When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth [his] face, who then can behold him? whether [it be done] against a nation, or against a man only:
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