Isaiah 45:7

God's Word

I make light and create darkness. I make blessings and create disasters. I, the Lord, do all these things.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:25

“ ‘Haven’t you heard? I did this long ago. I planned it in the distant past. Now I make it happen so that you will turn fortified cities into piles of rubble.

Job 10:13

But in your heart you hid these things. I know this is what you did.

Job 2:10

He said to her, “You’re talking like a godless fool. We accept the good that God gives us. Shouldn’t we also accept the bad?” Through all this Job’s lips did not utter one sinful word.

Job 34:29

If he keeps quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, who can see him whether it is a nation or a single person?

Psalm 105:28

He sent darkness and made ⌞their land⌟ dark. They did not rebel against his orders.

Psalm 29:11

The Lord will give power to his people. The Lord will bless his people with peace.

Psalm 74:16

The day and the night are yours. You set the moon and the sun in their places.

Psalm 75:7

God alone is the judge. He punishes one person and rewards another.

Psalm 8:3

When I look at your heavens, the creation of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have set in place—

Exodus 14:20

between the Egyptian camp and the Israelite camp. The ⌞column of⌟ smoke was there when darkness came, and it lit up the night. Neither side came near the other all night long.

Isaiah 31:2

He is wise and can bring about disaster. He doesn’t take back his words. He rises against wicked people and against those who help troublemakers.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind on unfamiliar roads. I will lead them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light in front of them. I will make rough places smooth. These are the things I will do for them, and I will never abandon them.

Isaiah 44:24

The Lord reclaimed you. He formed you in the womb. This is what the Lord says: I, the Lord, made everything. I stretched out the heavens by myself. I spread out the earth all alone.

Isaiah 47:11

But evil will happen to you. You won’t know how to keep it away. Disaster will strike you. You won’t be able to stop it. Destruction will overtake you suddenly. You won’t expect it.

Jeremiah 10:16

Jacob’s God isn’t like them. He made everything, and Israel is the tribe that belongs to him. His name is the Lord of Armies.

Jeremiah 13:16

Honor the Lord your God before it gets dark, before your feet stumble on the mountains in the twilight. You will look for light, but the Lord will turn it into the shadow of death and change it into deep darkness.

Jeremiah 31:35

The Lord provides the sun to be a light during the day. He orders the moon and stars to be lights during the night. He stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. His name is the Lord of Armies. This is what the Lord says:

Jeremiah 51:20

“You are my war club and my weapon for battle. I will use you to crush nations. I will use you to destroy kingdoms.

Lamentations 3:38

Both good and bad come from the mouth of the Most High God.

Ezekiel 32:8

I will darken all the lights shining in the sky above you. I will bring darkness over your land, declares the Almighty Lord.

Daniel 2:22

He reveals deeply hidden things. He knows what is in the dark, and light lives with him.

Joel 2:2

It is a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and overcast skies. A large and mighty army will spread over the mountains like the dawn. Nothing like this has ever happened. Nothing like this will ever happen again.

Amos 3:6

If a ram’s horn sounds an alarm in a city, won’t the people be alarmed? If there is a disaster in a city, hasn’t the Lord done it?

Amos 4:13

God forms the mountains and creates the wind. He reveals his thoughts to humans. He makes dawn and dusk ⌞appear⌟. He walks on the high places of the earth. His name is the Lord God of Armies.

Amos 5:6

Search for the Lord and live! If you don’t, he will spread like a fire through the house of Joseph and burn it down. Bethel will have no one to put it out.

Nahum 1:8

He will put an end to Nineveh with a devastating flood. He will pursue his enemies with darkness.

Acts 4:28

Through your will and power, they did everything that you had already decided should be done.

2 Corinthians 4:6

We are his servants because the same God who said that light should shine out of darkness has given us light. For that reason we bring to light the knowledge about God’s glory which shines from Christ’s face.

James 1:17

Every good present and every perfect gift comes from above, from the Father who made the sun, moon, and stars. The Father doesn’t change like the shifting shadows produced by the sun and the moon.

Jude 1:13

Their shame is like the foam on the wild waves of the sea. They are wandering stars for whom gloomy darkness is kept forever.

Jude 1:6

He held angels for judgment on the great day. They were held in darkness, bound by eternal chains. These are the angels who didn’t keep their position of authority but abandoned their assigned place.