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

Then God said: Let there be light! And there was light.

When I look at your heavens, the creation of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have set in place,

You appoint darkness and it becomes night, when all the forest animals prowl about.

Jehovah provides the sun to be a light during the day. He orders the moon and stars to be lights during the night. He stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. His name is Jehovah of Hosts. This is what Jehovah says:

God said: Light will shine out of darkness. He shined in our hearts. He gave the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face (presence) ((person) of Jesus Christ.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. It comes down from the Father of lights (truth and spiritual purity), with whom there is no variation. He does not change like shifting shadows.

Create darkness

Jehovah then said to Moses: Raise your hand toward the sky. Darkness thick enough to be felt will cover the land of Egypt.

So it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. 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.

Give glory to Jehovah your God before he brings darkness and before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You hope for light. He makes it into deep darkness and turns it into gloom.

All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you. And I will set darkness on your land,' proclaims the Lord Jehovah.

It is a day of darkness and gloom! It is a day of clouds and thick darkness! The dawn spreads upon the mountains. This great and mighty people have never seen anything like this. Nor will it be like this again even to the years of many generations.

Behold he who formed the mountains and created the wind and declared to man his thoughts, also made the morning darkness and treads upon the high places of the Earth: Jehovah, the God of Hosts, is his name.

He will exterminate adversaries with an over flowing flood and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

Angels who did not keep their position left their proper habitation. He has kept them in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

I make peace

How horrible it will be for Assyria! It is the rod of my anger. My fury is in the staff of the Assyrians' hands.

He said to her: You are talking like a godless fool. We accept the good that God gives us. Should we not also accept the bad? Through all this Job did not speak sinful words.

If God decided to do nothing at all, no one could criticize him. If he hid his face (refused to assist), we would be helpless.

Jehovah will give power (strength) to his people. Jehovah will bless his people with peace (prosperity) (health) (safety).

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

Consider the work of God. Who can make straight what he has made crooked?

At one time I may threaten to tear up, break down, and destroy a nation or a kingdom.

He says: You are my war-club, my weapon of war. I shatter nations with you and with you I destroy kingdoms.

If I send wild animals through that country and they make it childless and turn it into such a wasteland that no one travels through it because of the animals.

Will the trumpet be blown in a city and the people not be afraid? Will disaster happen to a city and Jehovah not cause it?

Seek Jehovah, and you will live. Lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it will devour, and there will be none to quench it in Bethel.

They were there to do the things your hand and council foreordained to occur.

General references

People may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand (power) of Jehovah has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.

Who gave Israel up to the looters? It was Jehovah, against whom we sinned! We would not live as he wanted us to live or obey the teachings he gave us.

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

Did my hand make all these things?