Isaiah 54:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ See, it is I who have created the smith who blows the fire of coals and produces a weapon fit for its purpose; I have also created the ravager to destroy.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Behold, I have created the smith who blows on the fire of coals and who produces a weapon for its purpose; and I have created the devastator to destroy.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the fire of coals, and bringeth forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Look, I myself created the metalworker who blows the fire of coal and who produces a tool for his work. And I myself created the looter to destroy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Behold, I created the smith who fans the coals of the fire and produces an object by his work, and I have created the slayer who destroys.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire and bringeth forth an instrument for his work: and I have created the killer to destroy.

Isaiah 54:16 Cross References

Exodus 9:16

But this is why I have let you live: to show you my power and to make my name resound through all the earth.

Proverbs 16:4

The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

Isaiah 10:15

Shall the ax vaunt itself over the one who wields it or the saw magnify itself against the one who handles it? As if a rod should raise the one who lifts it up, or as if a staff should lift the one who is not wood!

Isaiah 37:26

“Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,

Isaiah 46:11

calling a bird of prey from the east, the man for my purpose from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have planned, and I will do it.

Isaiah 54:15

If anyone stirs up strife, it is not from me; whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you.

Isaiah 54:17

No weapon that is fashioned against you shall prosper, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, says the Lord.

Zechariah 1:20

Then the Lord showed me four blacksmiths.

Zechariah 2:1

I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.

Zechariah 2:4

and said to him, “Run, say to that young man: Jerusalem shall be inhabited like unwalled villages because of the multitude of people and animals in it.

John 19:11

Jesus answered him, “You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above; therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”

1 Samuel 13:19

Now there was no smith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “The Hebrews must not make swords or spears for themselves,”