Isaiah 45:7

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

Isaiah 45:7 in Other Translations

KJV
7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
ESV
7 I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things.
NLT
7 I create the light and make the darkness. I send good times and bad times. I, the LORD, am the one who does these things.
MSG
7 I form light and create darkness, I make harmonies and create discords. I, God, do all these things.
CSB
7 I form light and create darkness, I make success and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things.

Isaiah 45:7 In-Context

5 I am the LORD, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me,
6 so that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting people may know there is none besides me. I am the LORD, and there is no other.
7 I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things.
8 “You heavens above, rain down my righteousness; let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness flourish with it; I, the LORD, have created it.
9 “Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker, those who are nothing but potsherds among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘The potter has no hands’?

Cross References 2

  • 1. S Genesis 1:4; S Exodus 10:22
  • 2. S Isaiah 14:15; S Isaiah 31:2; Lamentations 3:38; Amos 3:6
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