Isaiah 45:7
5 I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will equip you for battle, though you have not known Me,
6 so that all may know, from where the sun rises to where it sets, that there is none but Me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.
I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
8 Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.
9 Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
- KJV
- I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
- WEB
- I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.
- ASV
- I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.
- DARBY
- forming the light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil: I, Jehovah, do all these things.
- BLB
- forming the light and creating darkness, making peace and creating calamity—I [am] YHWH, the One doing all these [things]!
- ÅB
- jeg som er lysets opphav og mørkets skaper, som gir lykken og skaper ulykken; jeg, Herren, gjør alt dette.
- OTB
- Jeg skaper lys og former mørke, jeg bringer velstand og tillater utfordringer; jeg, Herren, gjør alle disse tingene.
- B1930
- jeg som er lysets ophav og mørkets skaper, som gir lykken og skaper ulykken; jeg, Herren, gjør alt dette.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ecclesiastes 7:13–14
Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
Read in contextAmos 3:6
If 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?
Read in contextPsalms 75:7
but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.
Read in contextJob 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.
Read in contextIsaiah 31:2
Yet 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.
Read in contextAmos 4:13
For 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.”
Read in contextJeremiah 13:16
Give 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.
Read in contextJeremiah 31:35
Thus 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:
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