Parallel Verses

King James 2000

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

New American Standard Bible

The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing well-being and creating calamity;
I am the Lord who does all these.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

I form light and create darkness,
I make success and create disaster;
I, Yahweh, do all these things.

International Standard Version

"I form light and create darkness, I make goodness and create disaster. I am the LORD, who does all these things.

A Conservative Version

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create evil. I am 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.

Amplified


The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing peace and creating disaster;
I am the Lord who does 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.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

I shall form light and create darkness: making peace and creating evil: I Jehovah doing all these.

Lexham Expanded Bible

form light and create darkness; make peace and create evil; I [am] Yahweh; do all these [things].

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

It is I that created the light, and darkness. I make peace, and trouble: yea, even I the LORD do all these things.

NET Bible

I am the one who forms light and creates darkness; the one who brings about peace and creates calamity. I am the Lord, who accomplishes all these things.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Forming light and creating darkness, Making prosperity, and creating misfortune, - I - Yahweh, who doeth all these.

Webster

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 Yahweh, who does all these things.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I form
יצר 
Yatsar 
Usage: 62

the light
אור 
'owr 
Usage: 122

and create
בּרא 
Bara' 
בּרא 
Bara' 
Usage: 54
Usage: 54

חשׁך 
Choshek 
Usage: 78

שׁלם שׁלום 
Shalowm 
Usage: 236

I the Lord

Usage: 0

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Isaiah 45:7

References

Context Readings

Cyrus, God's Instrument

6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. 7  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create calamity: I the LORD do all these things. 8 Drop down, you 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.



Cross References

Amos 3:6

Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be calamity in a city, and the LORD has not done it?

Exodus 10:21-23

And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.

Exodus 14:20

And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.

Job 2:10

But he said unto her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. 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.

Job 34:29

When he gives quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hides his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:

Psalm 75:7

But God is the judge: he puts down one, and sets up another.

Psalm 104:20-23

You make darkness, and it is night: in which all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

Ecclesiastes 7:13-14

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

Isaiah 10:5-6

O Assyria, the rod of my anger, the staff in their hand is my indignation.

Isaiah 31:2

Yet 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.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

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;

Jeremiah 31:35

Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the fixed order of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who divides the sea when its waves roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:

Jeremiah 51:20

You are my battle-axe and weapons of war: for with you will I break in pieces the nations, and with you will I destroy kingdoms;

Ezekiel 14:15-21

If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, so that it is desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:

Ezekiel 32:8

All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you, and set darkness upon your land, says the Lord GOD.

Joel 2:2

A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great and strong people; there has not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, through the years of many generations.

Amos 4:13

For, lo, he that forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares unto man what is his thought, that makes the morning darkness, and treads upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.

Amos 5:6

Seek the LORD, and you 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.

Nahum 1:8

But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of its place, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

Acts 4:28

To do whatsoever your hand and your counsel determined before to be done.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Jude 1:6

And the angels who kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

Jude 1:13

Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

Genesis 1:3-5

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Genesis 1:17-18

And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

Psalm 8:3

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

Psalm 29:11

The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.

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