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Isaiah 45:7

WEB

7I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.

KJV

7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

BSB

7I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

FBV

7I create light, and I make darkness, I bring peace and I bring about disaster. I am the Lord and I do all this.

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Extra References

Ecclesiastes 7:13-14

13Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which he has made crooked? 14In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.


Amos 3:6

6Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and the LORD hasn’t done it?


Psalms 75:7

7But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.


Job 2:10

10But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.


Isaiah 31:2

2Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.


Amos 4:13

13For, behold, he who forms the mountains, creates the wind, declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: The LORD, the God of Armies, is his name.”


Jeremiah 13:16

16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.


Jeremiah 31:35

35The LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar the LORD of Armies is his name, says:


Jeremiah 51:20

20You are my battle ax and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms.


Nahum 1:8

8But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.