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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.

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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.

45:8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.

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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formיָצַרyâtsar/yaw-tsar'/H3335to mould into a form; especially as apotter; figuratively, to determine (i.e. form a resolution)
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light,אוֹרʼôwr/ore/H216illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
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createבָּרָאbârâʼ/baw-raw'/H1254(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
darkness:חֹשֶׁךְchôshek/kho-shek'/H2822the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
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makeעָשָׂהʻâsâh/aw-saw'/H6213to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
peace,שָׁלוֹםshâlôwm/shaw-lome'/H7965safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace
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createבָּרָאbârâʼ/baw-raw'/H1254(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
evil:רַעraʻ/rah/H7451bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
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LORDיְהֹוָהYᵉhôvâh/yeh-ho-vaw'/H3068Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
doעָשָׂהʻâsâh/aw-saw'/H6213to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
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Commentary on Isaiah 45:7

HENRY_FULL · Isaiah 45:7
proach. Here is, 1. The sin of a prodigal son. Besides the wrong he does to himself, he is injurious to his good parents, and basely ungrateful to those that were instruments of his being and have taken so much care and pains about him, which is a great aggravation of his sin and renders it exceedingly sinful in the eyes of God and man: He wastes is father, wastes his estate which he should have to support him in his old age, wastes his spirits, and breaks his heart, and brings his gray head with sorrow to the grave. He chases away his mother, alienates her affections from him, which cannot be done without a great deal of regret and uneasiness to her; he makes her weary of the house, with his rudeness and insolence, and glad to retire for a little quietness; and, when he has spent all, he turns her out of doors. 2. The shame of a prodigal son. It is a shame to himself that he should be so brutish and unnatural. He makes himself odious to all mankind. It is a shame to his parents and family, who are reflected upon, though, perhaps, without just cause, for teaching him no better, or being in some way wanting to him. 27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge. This is a good c

Cross-references

Related passages from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

1 Kings 21:10

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 21:13

And 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 15:16

How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

Job 20:12

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

Job 20:13

Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: within: Heb. in the midst of his palate

Job 34:7

What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

Psalms 10:5

His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

Psalms 10:11

He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

Isaiah 28:14

Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

Hosea 4:8

They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. set: Heb. lift up their soul to

Luke 18:2

Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: in a city: Gr. in a certain city

Acts 6:11

Then they suborned men, which said We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.

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AfflictionsNationPeaceUnity of God

Verses like this

Other verses that share key original-language words with Isaiah 45:7.

Genesis 2:4

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 6:7

And 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 8:21

And 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 1:18

And 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 1:4

And 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 1:5

And 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 2:18

And 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 2:19

And 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

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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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