Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing well-being and creating calamity;
I am the Lord who does all these.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

I form light and create darkness,
I make success and create disaster;
I, Yahweh, do all these things.

International Standard Version

"I form light and create darkness, I make goodness and create disaster. I am the LORD, who does all these things.

A Conservative Version

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create evil. I am LORD who does all these things.

American Standard Version

I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.

Amplified


The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing peace and creating disaster;
I am the Lord who does all these things.

Bible in Basic English

I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

Darby Translation

forming the light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil: I, Jehovah, do all these things.

Julia Smith Translation

I shall form light and create darkness: making peace and creating evil: I Jehovah doing all these.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

form light and create darkness; make peace and create evil; I [am] Yahweh; do all these [things].

Modern King James verseion

forming the light and creating darkness; making peace and creating evil. I Jehovah do all these things.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

It is I that created the light, and darkness. I make peace, and trouble: yea, even I the LORD do all these things.

NET Bible

I am the one who forms light and creates darkness; the one who brings about peace and creates calamity. I am the Lord, who accomplishes all these things.

New Heart English Bible

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.

The Emphasized Bible

Forming light and creating darkness, Making prosperity, and creating misfortune, - I - Yahweh, who doeth all these.

Webster

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

World English Bible

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

Youngs Literal Translation

Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I am Jehovah, doing all these things.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I form
יצר 
Yatsar 
Usage: 62

the light
אור 
'owr 
Usage: 122

and create
בּרא 
Bara' 
בּרא 
Bara' 
Usage: 54
Usage: 54

חשׁך 
Choshek 
Usage: 78

שׁלם שׁלום 
Shalowm 
Usage: 236

I the Lord

Usage: 0

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Isaiah 45:7

References

Context Readings

Cyrus, God's Instrument

6 that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other. 7 The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing well-being and creating calamity;
I am the Lord who does all these.
8 "Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit; let the earth cause them both to sprout; I the LORD have created it.

Cross References

Amos 3:6

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?

Exodus 10:21-23

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."

Exodus 14:20

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.

Job 2:10

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.

Job 34:29

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

Psalm 75:7

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

Psalm 104:20-23

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

Ecclesiastes 7:13-14

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

Isaiah 10:5-6

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

Isaiah 31:2

And yet he is wise and brings disaster; he does not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers and against the helpers of those who work iniquity.

Jeremiah 13:16

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.

Jeremiah 18:7-10

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

Jeremiah 31:35

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:

Jeremiah 51:20

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

Ezekiel 14:15-21

"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,

Ezekiel 32:8

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

Joel 2:2

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.

Amos 4:13

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!

Amos 5:6

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,

Nahum 1:8

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

Acts 4:28

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

2 Corinthians 4:6

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.

James 1:17

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.

Jude 1:6

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--

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

Genesis 1:3-5

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

Genesis 1:17-18

And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,

Psalm 8:3

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

Psalm 29:11

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

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