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 it may be known from the rising of the sun and from where it goes down that there is no one beside me. I am the LORD, and there is no one else. 7 The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing well-being and creating calamity;
I am the Lord who does all these.
8 Release, ye heavens, from above, and the clouds shall pour down righteous ness; let the earth open up, and let salvation and righteousness bear their fruit; let them produce fruit together; I the LORD have created it.

Cross References

Amos 3:6

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?

Exodus 10:21-23

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.

Exodus 14:20

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.

Job 2:10

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.

Job 34:29

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,

Psalm 75:7

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

Psalm 104:20-23

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

Ecclesiastes 7:13-14

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

Isaiah 10:5-6

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

Isaiah 31:2

Yet he also is wise to guide evil and will not cause his words to lie but will arise against the house of the evildoers and against the help of those that work iniquity.

Jeremiah 13:16

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.

Jeremiah 18:7-10

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

Jeremiah 31:35

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;

Jeremiah 51:20

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;

Ezekiel 14:15-21

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

Ezekiel 32:8

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

Joel 2:2

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.

Amos 4:13

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.

Amos 5:6

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.

Nahum 1:8

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

Acts 4:28

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

2 Corinthians 4:6

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.

James 1:17

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.

Jude 1:6

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.

Jude 1:13

raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own abominations; erratic stars, to whom is reserved gross darkness eternally.

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 firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth

Psalm 8:3

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

Psalm 29:11

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

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