Isaiah 45:7

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Summary

Isaiah 45:7

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

Form

Create darkness

I make peace

General references

Bible References

Form

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

When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;

When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.

These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.

Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.

Create darkness

And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark.

And it came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel; and there was a dark cloud between them, and they went on through the night; but the one army came no nearer to the other all the night.

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord.

For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.

For see, he who gave form to the mountains and made the wind, giving knowledge of his purpose to man, who makes the morning dark, and is walking on the high places of the earth: the Lord, the God of armies, is his name.

But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.

I make peace

Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!

And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.

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But God is the judge, putting down one, and lifting up another.

Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?

Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;

You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;

Or if I send evil beasts through the land causing destruction and making it waste, so that no man may go through because of the beasts:

If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?

Go to the Lord for help so that you may have life; for fear that he may come like fire bursting out in the family of Joseph, causing destruction, and there will be no one to put it out in Beth-el.

To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.

General references

So that they may see and be wise and give their mind to it, and that it may be clear to them all that the hand of the Lord has done this, and that the Holy One of Israel has made it.

Who gave up Jacob to those who took away his goods, and Israel to his attackers? Did not the Lord? he against whom they did wrong, and in whose ways they would not go, turning away from his teaching.

Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

Did not my hand make all these things?