Isaiah 45:7

In 11 translations

BSB

I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

Forming light, and creating darkness, || Making peace, and creating calamity, || I [am] YHWH, doing all these things.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

I forme the light and create darkenes: I make peace and create euill: I the Lord doe all these things.

JPS

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

LXXE

I am he that prepared light, and formed darkness; who make peace, and create evil; I am the Lord God, that does all these things.

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Original-language editions

WLC

יוֹצֵ֥ר אוֹר֙ וּבוֹרֵ֣א חֹ֔שֶׁךְ עֹשֶׂ֥ה שָׁל֖וֹם וּב֣וֹרֵא רָ֑ע אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה עֹשֶׂ֥ה כָל־אֵֽלֶּה׃

LXX-Br

Ἐγὼ ἡ κατασκευάσας φῶς, καὶ ποιήσας σκότος, ὁ ποιῶν εἰρήνην, καὶ κτίζων κακά· ἐγὼ Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς, ὁ ποιῶν πάντα ταῦτα.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Ecclesiastes 7:13–14Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent? In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot…
• Amos 3:6If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
• Psalms 75:7but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.
• Job 2:10“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
• Isaiah 31:2Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.
• Amos 4:13For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
• Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
• Jeremiah 31:35Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and 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 war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
• Nahum 1:8But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness.
• Amos 5:6Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
• Psalms 104:20–23You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl. The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God. The sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens. Man…
• Ezekiel 32:8All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness upon your land,’ declares the Lord GOD.
• Acts 4:28They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.
• Exodus 10:21–23Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.” So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and total darkness covered all…
• Jeremiah 18:7–10At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed. But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring. And if at…

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