Isaiah 45:7 KJV — MannaFest

Isaiah 45:7

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

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DBT

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

WEB

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

YLT

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

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Genesis 1:3
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Ecclesiastes 7:13–14
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
Amos 3:6
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
Psalms 75:7
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Job 2:10
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

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): I form the light, which is grateful and pleasing, and I create darkness, which is grievous and unpleasing. I make peace (put here for all good) and I create evil, not the evil of sin (God is not the author of that), but the evil of punishment.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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