Isaiah 45:7

New English Translation

I am the one who forms light and creates darkness; the one who brings about peace and creates calamity. I am the Lord, who accomplishes all these things.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:25

Certainly you must have heard! Long ago I worked it out, In ancient times I planned it; and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins.

Job 10:13

“But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:

Job 2:10

But he replied, “You’re talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?” In all this Job did not sin by what he said.

Job 34:29

But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,

Psalm 105:28

He made it dark; they did not disobey his orders.

Psalm 29:11

The Lord gives his people strength; the Lord grants his people security.

Psalm 74:16

You established the cycle of day and night; you put the moon and sun in place.

Psalm 75:7

For God is the judge! He brings one down and exalts another.

Psalm 8:3

When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made, and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place,

Exodus 14:20

It came between the Egyptian camp and the Israelite camp; it was a dark cloud and it lit up the night so that one camp did not come near the other the whole night.

Isaiah 31:2

Yet he too is wise and he will bring disaster; he does not retract his decree. He will attack the wicked nation, and the nation that helps those who commit sin.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them.

Isaiah 44:24

This is what the Lord, your protector, says, the one who formed you in the womb: “I am the Lord, who made everything, who alone stretched out the sky, who fashioned the earth all by myself,

Isaiah 47:11

Disaster will overtake you; you will not know how to charm it away. Destruction will fall on you; you will not be able to appease it. Calamity will strike you suddenly, before you recognize it.

Jeremiah 10:16

The Lord, who is the inheritance of Jacob’s descendants, is not like them. He is the one who created everything. And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own. He is known as the Lord who rules over all.”

Jeremiah 13:16

Show the Lord your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.

Jeremiah 31:35

The Lord has made a promise to Israel. He promises it as the one who fixed the sun to give light by day and the moon and stars to give light by night. He promises it as the one who stirs up the sea so that its waves roll. He promises it as the one who is known as the Lord who rules over all.

Jeremiah 51:20

“Babylon, you are my war club, my weapon for battle. I used you to smash nations. I used you to destroy kingdoms.

Lamentations 3:38

Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes – both calamity and blessing?

Ezekiel 32:8

I will darken all the lights in the sky over you, and I will darken your land, declares the sovereign Lord.

Daniel 2:22

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

Joel 2:2

It will be a day of dreadful darkness, a day of foreboding storm clouds, like blackness spread over the mountains. It is a huge and powerful army – there has never been anything like it ever before, and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come!

Amos 3:6

If an alarm sounds in a city, do people not fear? If disaster overtakes a city, is the Lord not responsible?

Amos 4:13

For here he is! He formed the mountains and created the wind. He reveals his plans to men. He turns the dawn into darkness and marches on the heights of the earth. The Lord, the God who commands armies, is his name!”

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord so you can live! Otherwise he will break out like fire against Joseph’s family; the fire will consume and no one will be able to quench it and save Bethel.

Nahum 1:8

But with an overwhelming flood he will make a complete end of Nineveh; he will drive his enemies into darkness.

Acts 4:28

to do as much as your power and your plan had decided beforehand would happen.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.

James 1:17

All generous giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change.

Jude 1:13

wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved.

Jude 1:6

You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day.