Isaiah 45:7

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

2 Kings 19:25

“Have you not heard? A long time ago I prepared it, from days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it about: You are here to reduce fortified cities to heaps of ruins,

Job 10:13

Yet these things you have hidden in your heart; I know they are your purpose:

Job 2:10

But he said to her, “You speak as foolish women do. We accept good things from God; should we not accept evil?” Through all this, Job did not sin in what he said. Job’s Three Friends.

Job 34:29

If he is silent, who then can condemn? If he hides his face, who then can behold him, whether nation or individual?

Psalm 105:28

He sent darkness and it grew dark, but they rebelled against his word.

Psalm 29:11

May the Lord give might to his people; may the Lord bless his people with peace!

Psalm 74:16

Yours the day and yours the night too; you set the moon and sun in place.

Psalm 75:7

For judgment comes not from east or from west, not from the wilderness or the mountains,

Psalm 8:3

with the mouths of babes and infants. You have established a bulwark against your foes, to silence enemy and avenger.

Exodus 14:20

so that it came between the Egyptian army and that of Israel. And when it became dark, the cloud illumined the night; and so the rival camps did not come any closer together all night long.

Isaiah 31:2

Yet he too is wise and will bring disaster; he will not turn from his threats. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against those who help evildoers.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind on a way they do not know; by paths they do not know I will guide them. I will turn darkness into light before them, and make crooked ways straight. These are my promises: I made them, I will not forsake them.

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, I spread out the earth by myself.

Isaiah 47:11

But upon you shall come an evil you will not be able to charm away; Upon you shall fall a disaster you cannot ward off. Upon you shall suddenly come a ruin you cannot imagine.

Jeremiah 10:16

Jacob’s portion is nothing like them: for he is the maker of everything! Israel is his very own tribe, 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 mountains at twilight; Before the light you look for turns to darkness, changes into black clouds.

Jeremiah 31:35

Thus says the Lord, Who gives the sun to light the day, moon and stars to light the night; Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar, whose name is Lord of hosts:

Jeremiah 51:20

You are my hammer, a weapon for war; With you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms.

Lamentations 3:38

Is it not at the word of the Most High that both good and bad take place?

Ezekiel 32:8

All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you; I will spread darkness over your land— oracle of the Lord God.

Daniel 2:22

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

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of thick clouds! Like dawn spreading over the mountains, a vast and mighty army! Nothing like it has ever happened in ages past, nor will the future hold anything like it, even to the most distant generations.

Amos 3:6

Does the ram’s horn sound in a city without the people becoming frightened? Does disaster befall a city unless the Lord has caused it?

Amos 4:13

The one who forms mountains and creates winds, and declares to mortals their thoughts; Who makes dawn into darkness and strides upon the heights of the earth, the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord, that you may live, lest he flare up against the house of Joseph like a fire that shall consume the house of Israel, with no one to quench it.

Nahum 1:8

when the flood rages; He makes an end of his opponents, and pursues his enemies into darkness.

Acts 4:28

to do what your hand and [your] will had long ago planned to take place.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to bring to light the knowledge of the glory of God on the face of [Jesus] Christ. The Paradox of the Ministry.

James 1:17

all good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no alteration or shadow caused by change.

Jude 1:13

They are like wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameless deeds, wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved forever.

Jude 1:6

The angels too, who did not keep to their own domain but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains, in gloom, for the judgment of the great day.