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 consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest move.

Thus hath the LORD said, who gives the sun for light by day, and the laws of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who divides the sea and the waves thereof roar; The LORD of the hosts is his name;

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

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.

Create darkness

And 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.

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 lit up the night unto Israel; and all that night the one side never came near the other.

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

All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark because of thee and set darkness upon thy land, said the Lord GOD.

a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of shadow that spreads itself upon the mountains as the dawn: a people great and strong; there has not ever been the like, neither shall there be any more after him, even to the years of many generations.

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

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

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

I make peace

O Assyrian, rod and staff of my anger, in thy hand have I placed my indignation.

But he said unto her, Thou hast spoken as any of the foolish women speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

When he gives rest, who then can make trouble? If he hides his face, who then can behold him? This applies to a nation and the same to a man,

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

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

Consider the work of God; for who can make straight that which he has twisted?

In an instant I shall speak against Gentiles and against kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy.

Thou art my hammer, O weapons of war: for with thee I will break in pieces the Gentiles, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms;

If I cause an evil beast to pass through the land and destroy her so that it be desolate that there be no one to pass through because of the beast

Shall the shofar be blown in the city and the people not be afraid? Shall there be any evil in the city which the LORD has not done?

Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph and devour it, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

to do that which thy hand and thy counsel had determined beforehand must be done.

General references

That they may see and know and take warning and understand together that the hand of the LORD does this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

Who gave Jacob for a spoil and Israel to the robbers? Did not the LORD? Because we sinned against him, and they did not desire to walk in his ways, neither did they hearken unto his law.

Mem Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?

Has not my hand made all these things?