Isaiah 45:7

The Passion Translation

I create light, and I make it dark. I make bliss, and I create adversity. I am Yahweh who does all these things.’

Cross References

Psalm 105:28

By God’s direction, they spoke and released a plague of thick darkness over the land.

Psalm 29:11

This is the one who gives his strength and might to his people. This is the Lord giving us his kiss of peace.

Psalm 74:16

You own the day and the night. Sunlight and starlight call you Creator.

Psalm 8:3

Look at the splendor of your skies, your creative genius glowing in the heavens. When I gaze at your moon and your stars, mounted like jewels in their settings, I know you are the fascinating artist who fashioned it all! But I have to ask this question:

Isaiah 31:2

Yet he is wiser than all of them! He can call down calamity upon evildoers and never needs to retract his words. He will stand up against the wicked and those who protect them.

Isaiah 42:16

I will walk the blind by an unknown way and guide them on paths they’ve never traveled. I will smooth their difficult road and make their dark mysteries bright with light. These are things I will do for them, for I will never abandon my beloved ones.

Isaiah 44:24

Here is what Yahweh, your Kinsman-Redeemer, who formed you in his womb, has to say: “I am Yahweh, Creator of all. I alone stretched out the canvas of the cosmos. I who shaped the earth needed no one’s help.

Isaiah 47:11

An avalanche of evil will come upon you that no magic spell will be able to avert. Great disaster is about to fall upon you that you will not be able to ward off! Total devastation will strike you suddenly. It will happen so swiftly you won’t even see it coming!

Jeremiah 10:16

You idols are nothing like Yahweh, the true Treasure of Jacob. For he created the universe and has chosen Israel to be his inheritance. Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, is his name.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give all glory to Yahweh your God before he brings darkness, and you stumble and fall on mountain paths in the dusk of twilight. Give him glory before he turns the light you’re longing for into a death shadow and deep gloom.

Jeremiah 31:35

“I am Yahweh All-Powerful. I declare to you: I order the sun to light up the day, the stars and moon to brighten the night. I stir the sea and make the ocean waves roar. My name is Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies.

Jeremiah 51:20

“You were my war club, my battle club. I used you to crush nations and overthrow kingdoms.

Lamentations 3:38

Is it not from the decree of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?

Ezekiel 32:8

Heaven’s bright lights above you I will darken and shroud your land in darkness. I, Lord Yahweh, have spoken.

Daniel 2:22

He alone reveals deep secrets and mysteries and knows what lies in darkness, for he radiates glory-light all around him.

Acts 4:28

They did to him all that your purpose and will had determined, according to the destiny you had marked out for him.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, “Let brilliant light shine out of darkness,” is the one who has cascaded his light into us—the brilliant dawning light of the glorious knowledge of God as we gaze into the face of Jesus Christ.

James 1:17

Every gift God freely gives us is good and perfect, streaming down from the Father of lights, who shines from the heavens with no hidden shadow or darkness and is never subject to change.

Jude 1:13

They are wild waves of the sea, flinging out the foam of their shame and disgrace. They are misleading like wandering stars, for whom the complete darkness of eternal gloom has been reserved.

Jude 1:6

In the same way, there were heavenly messengers in rebellion who went outside their rightful domain of authority and abandoned their appointed realms. God bound them in everlasting chains and is keeping them in the dark abyss of the netherworld until the judgment of the great day.