Isaiah 45:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

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 make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,

Job 10:13

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

Job 2:10

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

Job 34:29

When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him? Whether nation or person, it is the same—

Psalm 105:28

He sent darkness and made the land dark; they rebelled against his words.

Psalm 29:11

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

Psalm 74:16

Yours is the day, yours also the night; you established the luminaries and the sun.

Psalm 75:7

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

Psalm 8:3

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established;

Exodus 14:20

It came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel. And so the cloud was there with the darkness, and it lit up the night; one did not come near the other all night.

Isaiah 31:2

Yet he is wise and can bring disaster; he does not depart from his words but will rise against the house of the evildoers and against the helpers of those who work iniquity.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind by a road they do not know; by paths 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 will do, and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 44:24

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

Isaiah 47:11

But evil shall come upon you, which you cannot charm away; disaster shall fall upon you, which you will not be able to ward off, and ruin shall come on you suddenly, of which you know nothing.

Jeremiah 10:16

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

Jeremiah 13:16

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

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 51:20

You are my war club, my weapon of battle: with you I smash nations; with you I destroy kingdoms;

Lamentations 3:38

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

Ezekiel 32:8

All the shining lights of the heavens I will darken above you and put darkness on your land, says the Lord God.

Daniel 2:22

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

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness spread upon the mountains, a great and powerful army comes; their like has never been from of old, nor will be again after them in ages to come.

Amos 3:6

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

Amos 4:13

For the one who forms the mountains, creates the wind, reveals his thoughts to mortals, makes the morning darkness, and treads 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 against the house of Joseph like fire, and it will devour Bethel, with no one to quench it.

Nahum 1:8

even in a rushing flood. He will make a full end of his adversaries and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

Acts 4:28

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

2 Corinthians 4:6

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

James 1:17

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

Jude 1:13

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

Jude 1:6

And the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great day.