Parallel Verses

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.

King James 2000

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

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 men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun
That there is no one besides Me.
I am the Lord, and there is no other,
7 The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing well-being and creating calamity;
I am the Lord who does all these.
8 Drip down, O heavens, from above,
And let the clouds pour down righteousness;
Let the earth open up and salvation bear fruit,
And righteousness spring up with it.
I, the Lord, have created it.



Cross References

Amos 3:6

If a trumpet is blown in a city will not the people tremble?
If a calamity occurs in a city has not the Lord done it?

Exodus 10:21-23

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even a darkness which may be felt.”

Exodus 14:20

So it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud along with the darkness, yet it gave light at night. Thus the one did not come near the other all night.

Job 2:10

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Job 34:29

When He keeps quiet, who then can condemn?
And when He hides His face, who then can behold Him,
That is, in regard to both nation and man?—

Psalm 75:7

But God is the Judge;
He puts down one and exalts another.

Psalm 104:20-23

You appoint darkness and it becomes night,
In which all the beasts of the forest prowl about.

Ecclesiastes 7:13-14

Consider the work of God,
For who is able to straighten what He has bent?

Isaiah 10:5-6

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger
And the staff in whose hands is My indignation,

Isaiah 31:2

Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster
And does not retract His words,
But will arise against the house of evildoers
And against the help of the workers of iniquity.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God,
Before He brings darkness
And before your feet stumble
On the dusky mountains,
And while you are hoping for light
He makes it into deep darkness,
And turns it into gloom.

Jeremiah 18:7-10

At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot, to pull down, or to destroy it;

Jeremiah 31:35

Thus says the Lord,
Who gives the sun for light by day
And the fixed order of the moon and the 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

He says, “You are My war-club, My weapon of war;
And with you I shatter nations,
And with you I destroy kingdoms.

Ezekiel 14:15-21

“If I were to cause wild beasts to pass through the land and they depopulated it, and it became desolate so that no one would pass through it because of the beasts,

Ezekiel 32:8

“All the shining lights in the heavens
I will darken over you
And will set darkness on your land,”
Declares the Lord God.

Joel 2:2

A day of darkness and gloom,
A day of clouds and thick darkness.
As the dawn is spread over the mountains,
So there is a great and mighty people;
There has never been anything like it,
Nor will there be again after it
To the years of many generations.

Amos 4:13

For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the wind
And declares to man what are His thoughts,
He who makes dawn into darkness
And treads on the high places of the earth,
The Lord God of hosts is His name.

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord that you may live,
Or He will break forth like a fire, O house of Joseph,
And it will consume with none to quench it for Bethel,

Nahum 1:8

But with an overflowing flood
He will make a complete end of its site,
And will pursue His enemies into darkness.

Acts 4:28

to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

James 1:17

Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.

Jude 1:6

And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day,

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.

Genesis 1:3-5

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

Genesis 1:17-18

God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on 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 to His people;
The Lord will bless His people with peace.

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