Isaiah 45:7

God's power and sovereignty Creation Peace Suffering

⁵ I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

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.

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.

⁹ Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath 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: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
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Amos 3:6
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
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Psalms 75:7
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
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Job 2:10
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
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Isaiah 31:2
Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
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Amos 4:13
For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
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Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
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Jeremiah 31:35
Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
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