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 established;

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

So says Jehovah, who gives the sun for a light by day and the laws of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who divides the sea when its waves roar; Jehovah of Hosts is His name;

For it is God who said, "Out of darkness Light shall shine;" who shone in our hearts to give the brightness of the knowledge of the glory 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 nor shadow of turning.

Create darkness

And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, so that one may even feel the darkness.

And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. And it was a cloudy and dark night, but it lit up the night, so that the one did not come near the other all night.

Give glory to Jehovah your God, before He causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, He turns it into the shadow of death, setting up deep gloom.

I will make all the bright lights of the heavens dark over you, and will set darkness on your land, says the Lord Jehovah.

a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread on the mountains; a great people and a strong people; there has not been ever the like, nor shall there ever be again, even to the years of many generations.

For lo, He forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what his thought is. He who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth; Jehovah, the God of Hosts, is His name.

But with an overflowing flood He will make an utter end of its place, and darkness shall pursue His enemies.

And those angels not having kept their first place, but having deserted their dwelling-place, He has kept in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of a great Day;

I make peace

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger! And the staff in their hand is My fury.

But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish ones 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.

And He gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when He hides His face, who can behold Him? And it may be against a nation and a man together;

Jehovah will give strength to His people; Jehovah will bless His people with peace.

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

Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what He has made crooked?

The instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck it up and to pull it down, and to destroy it;

You are My war-club and weapons of war; for with you I will shatter nations; and with you I will destroy kingdoms.

If I cause destroying beasts to come through the land, and they spoil it so that it is deserted, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts,

If a ram's horn is blown in a city, will the people not also tremble? If there is a calamity in a city, has Jehovah not also done it?

Seek Jehovah, and you shall live; lest He break out like a fire on the house of Joseph and devour it, and there be none to put it out in Bethel.

in order to do whatever Your hand and Your counsel determined before to be done.

General references

so that they may see, and know, and look on, and understand together, that the hand of Jehovah has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to robbers? Did not Jehovah, against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, nor did they obey His Law.

From the mouth of the Most High does not go out the evil and the good.

Has not My hand made all these things?"