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Isaiah 45:7

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

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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13 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
יוֹצֵ֥רyo.Tzer[who] formsH3335 →
אוֹר֙'OrlightH216 →
וּבוֹרֵ֣אu.vo.Re'and [who] createsH1254 →
חֹ֔שֶׁךְCho.shekhdarknessH2822 →
עֹשֶׂ֥ה'o.Seh[who] brings aboutH6213 →
שָׁל֖וֹםsha.Lomwell-beingH7965 →
וּב֣וֹרֵאu.Vo.re'and [who] createsH1254 →
רָ֑עRa'calamityH7451 →
אֲנִ֥י'a.NiIH589 →
יְהוָ֖הYah.weh[am] YahwehH3068 →
עֹשֶׂ֥ה'o.Seh[who] doesH6213 →
כָל־khol-allH3605 →
אֵֽלֶּה׃ ס'E.lehthese [things]H428 →

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Genesis 1:3And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.Ecclesiastes 7:13–14Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?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.Lamentations 3:38Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?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.”Genesis 1:5God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.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.Philippians 4:7And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.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.Acts 4:28They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.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.

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The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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