Isaiah 45:7

English Standard Version 2016

I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

Cross References

Amos 3:6

Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the Lord has done it?

Psalm 75:7

but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.

Job 2:10

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Amos 4:13

For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!

Isaiah 31:2

And yet he is wise and brings disaster; he does not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers and against the helpers of those who work iniquity.

Jeremiah 31:35

Thus 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:

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.

Nahum 1:8

But with an overflowing flood he will make a complete end of the adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

Jeremiah 51:20

“You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;

Acts 4:28

to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,

Ezekiel 32:8

All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you, and put darkness on your land, declares the Lord God.

Psalm 29:11

May the Lord give strength to his people! May the Lord bless his people with peace!

Psalm 8:3

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

Job 34:29

When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?—

Exodus 14:20

coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the night without one coming near the other all night.

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

Jude 1:6

And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.

2 Kings 19:25

“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 turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins,

Psalm 105:28

He sent darkness, and made the land dark; they did not rebel against his words.

Isaiah 42:16

And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them.

Isaiah 47:11

But evil shall come upon you, which you will not know how to charm away; disaster shall fall upon you, for which you will not be able to atone; and ruin shall come upon you suddenly, of which you know nothing.

Jeremiah 10:16

Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the Lord of hosts is his name.

Lamentations 3:38

Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?

Daniel 2:22

he reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

Job 10:13

Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose.

Psalm 74:16

Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.

Isaiah 44:24

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself,