Isaiah 45:7

Isaiah 45:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
• New International Version (NIV)I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things.
• English Standard Version (ESV)I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
• New King James Version (NKJV)I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the Lord, do all these things.’

Context of Isaiah 45:7

5I am the Lord, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God. I will gird you, though you have not known Me; 6That men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun That there is no one besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other, The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the Lord who does all these. 8“Drip down, O heavens, from above, And let the clouds pour down righteousness; Let the earth open up and salvation bear fruit, And righteousness spring up with it. I, the Lord, have created it. 9“Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker-- An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth! Will the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you doing?’ Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands’?

Isaiah 45:7 word by word

יוֹצֵ֥ר אוֹר֙ וּבוֹרֵ֣א חֹ֔שֶׁךְ עֹשֶׂ֥ה שָׁל֖וֹם וּב֣וֹרֵא רָ֑ע אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה עֹשֶׂ֥ה כָל־אֵֽלֶּה׃ סRead the interlinear

• formingיָצַרyâtsar · to form: formedH3335
• lightאוֹר'ôr · lightH216
• creatingבָּרָאbârâ' · to createH1254
• darknessחֹ֫שֶׁךְchôshek · darknessH2822
• Causingעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
• well-beingשָׁלוֹםshâlôm shâlôm · peace: well-beingH7965
• calamityרַעra‛ râ‛âh · bad: evilH7451
• I am the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• who doesעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• allכֹּלkôl kôl · allH3605
• theseאֵ֫לֶּה'êlleh · theseH428

Cross-references for Isaiah 45:7

• Genesis 1:3Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
• Psalms 8:3When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;
• Psalms 104:20You appoint darkness and it becomes night, In which all the beasts of the forest prowl about.
• Jeremiah 31:35Thus says the Lord, Who gives the sun for light by day And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The Lord of hosts is His name:
• 2 Corinthians 4:6For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
• James 1:17Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.
• Exodus 10:21Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even a darkness which may be felt.”
• Exodus 14:20So it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud along with the darkness, yet it gave light at night. Thus the one did not come near the other all night.
• Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the Lord your God, Before He brings darkness And before your feet stumble On the dusky mountains, And while you are hoping for light He makes it into deep darkness, And turns it into gloom.
• Ezekiel 32:8All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you And will set darkness on your land,” Declares the Lord God.
• Joel 2:2A day of darkness and gloom, A day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn is spread over the mountains, So there is a great and mighty people; There has never been anything like it, Nor will there be again after it To the years of many generations.
• Amos 4:13For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the wind And declares to man what are His thoughts, He who makes dawn into darkness And treads on the high places of the earth, The Lord God of hosts is His name.
• Nahum 1:8But with an overflowing flood He will make a complete end of its site, And will pursue His enemies into darkness.
• Jude 1:6And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day,
• Isaiah 10:5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger And the staff in whose hands is My indignation,
• Job 2:10But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Commentaries on Isaiah 45:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7I form the light, and create darkness - It was the great principle of the Magian religion, which prevailed in Persia in the time of Cyrus, and in which probably he was educated, that there are two supreme, co-eternal, and independent causes always acting in opposition one to the other; one the author of all good, the other of all evil. The good being they called Light; the evil being, Darkness. That when Light had the ascendant, then good and happtness…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7I form the light, and create darkness - Light, in the Bible, is the emblem of knowledge, innocence, pure religion, and of prosperity in general; and darkness is the emblem of the opposite. Light here seems to be the emblem of peace and prosperity, and darkness the emblem of adversity; and the sentiment of the verse is, that all things prosperous and adverse are under the providential control and direction of God. Of light, it is literally true that God…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-10Verses 5-10 There is no God beside Jehovah. There is nothing done without him. He makes peace, put here for all good; and creates evil, not the evil of sin, but the evil of punishment. He is the Author of all that is true, holy, good, or happy; and evil, error, and misery, came into the world by his permission, through the wilful apostacy of his creatures, but are restrained and overruled to his righteous purpose. This doctrine is applied, for the comfort…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7light … darkness … prosperity … calamity: Everything is under God’s control.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. form ... create--yatzar, to give "form" to previously existing matter. Bara, to "create" from nothing the chaotic dark material. light ... darkness--literally (Ge 1:1-3), emblematical also, prosperity to Cyrus, calamity to Babylon and the nations to be vanquished [Grotius] ... Isaiah refers also to the Oriental belief in two coexistent, eternal principles, ever struggling with each other, light or good, and darkness or evil, Oromasden and Ahrimanen…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Isaiah 45

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings