Isaiah 45:7

Modern English Version

I form the light and create darkness; I make peace and create calamity; I, the Lord, do all these things.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:25

“Have you not heard? Long ago I arranged it, in ancient times I formed it; now I bring it to pass, that you will turn impregnable cities into desolate heaps of stones.

Job 10:13

“These things You have hidden in Your heart. I know that this is with You.

Job 2:10

He said to her, “You talk like one of the foolish women talks. Will we indeed accept the good from God but not accept the adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Job 34:29

When He gives quietness, who then can make trouble? And when He hides His face, who then can behold Him, whether it is done against a nation or against a man only?

Psalm 105:28

He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they did not rebel against His words.

Psalm 29:11

The Lord will give strength to His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace.

Psalm 74:16

The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have prepared the light and the sun.

Psalm 75:7

But God is the Judge; He puts down one and exalts another.

Psalm 8:3

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have established,

Exodus 14:20

So it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel, and there was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night. Therefore, the one did not come near the other the entire night.

Isaiah 31:2

Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster and will not call back His words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers and against the help of those who work iniquity.

Isaiah 42:16

I will bring the blind by a way that they did not know; I will lead them in paths that they have not known. I will make darkness light before them and crooked things straight. These things I will do for them and not forsake them.

Isaiah 44:24

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb: I am the Lord who makes all things, who stretches out the heavens alone, who spreads abroad the earth by Myself,

Isaiah 47:11

Therefore, evil shall come upon you, which you shall not know from where it rises. And disaster shall fall upon you, for which you shall not be able to atone. And desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know.

Jeremiah 10:16

The portion of Jacob is not like them, for He is the maker of all things, and Israel is the rod of His inheritance. The Lord of Hosts is His name.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God, before He causes darkness and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, He turns it into the shadow of death and makes it gross darkness.

Jeremiah 31:35

Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea so that the waves roar, the Lord of Hosts is His name:

Jeremiah 51:20

He says: You are My battle-ax and weapon of war: for with you I will break in pieces the nations, and with you I will destroy kingdoms;

Lamentations 3:38

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

Ezekiel 32:8

All the bright lights in the heavens I will make dark over you, and set darkness upon your land, says the Lord God.

Daniel 2:22

He reveals the deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with Him.

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness. Like blackness spreading over the mountain, a great and mighty army comes, such as was never before, and will never be again, even through the years of all generations.

Amos 3:6

If the trumpet blasts in the city, are not the people frightened? If there is disaster against a city, is it not the Lord who has done it?

Amos 4:13

The One who forms the mountains and creates the wind, who reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the darkness into dawn and strides on the heights of the earth — the Lord, the God of Hosts, is His name.

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord and live, or He will break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it will devour Bethel, with no one to quench it.

Nahum 1:8

As a flood running forth, He will bring to an end the distress, and He will pursue His adversaries into darkness.

Acts 4:28

to do what Your hand and Your counsel had foreordained to be done.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who commanded the light to 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.

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no change or shadow of turning.

Jude 1:13

raging waves of the sea, which are foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness has been kept forever.

Jude 1:6

Likewise, the angels who did not keep to their first domain, but forsook their own dwelling, He has kept in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day.