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 look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

You make darkness, and it is night, when all the beasts of the forest creep about.

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:

For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness,"has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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

Create darkness

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt."

coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the night without one coming near the other all night.

Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.

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

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.

For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth-- the LORD, the God of hosts, is his name!

But with an overflowing flood he will make a complete end of the adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day--

I make peace

Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!

But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?"In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?--

May the LORD give strength to his people! May the LORD bless his people with peace!

but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.

Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked?

If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it,

"You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;

"If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts,

Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the LORD has done it?

Seek the LORD and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,

to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.

General references

that they may see and know, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.

Who gave up Jacob to the looter, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned, in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey?

Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?

Did not my hand make all these things?'