Isaiah 45:7
45:6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
KJV
I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
What does Isaiah 45:7 mean?
Isaiah 45:7 is a verse in the book of Isaiah, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include יָצַר (yâtsar), אוֹר (ʼôwr), בָּרָא (bârâʼ). It connects to 12 cross-referenced passages elsewhere in Scripture.
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Related passages from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
1 Kings 21:13And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
Job 15:16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Job 20:12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
Job 20:13Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: within: Heb. in the midst of his palate
Job 34:7What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Psalms 10:5His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
Psalms 10:11He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Isaiah 28:14Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
Hosea 4:8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. set: Heb. lift up their soul to
Luke 18:2Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: in a city: Gr. in a certain city
Acts 6:11Then they suborned men, which said We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
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Other verses that share key original-language words with Isaiah 45:7.
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
Genesis 6:7And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. both: Heb. from man unto beast
Genesis 8:21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. a sweet: Heb. a savour of rest or, satisfaction for the imagination: or, through the imagination
Genesis 1:18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. the light from: Heb. between the light and between the darkness
Genesis 1:5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And the evening: Heb. And the evening was, and the morning was
Genesis 2:18And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. meet: Heb. as before him
Genesis 2:19And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. Adam: or, the man
Frequently asked questions
What does Isaiah 45:7 say?
Isaiah 45:7 (King James Version) reads: "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things."
Is Isaiah 45:7 in the Old or New Testament?
Isaiah 45:7 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Isaiah.
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