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I send good times and bad times. I, the LORD, am the one who does these things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/45.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/45.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/45.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these <i>things</i>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/45.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the LORD, do all these <i>things.</i>’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/45.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating disaster; I am the LORD who does all these things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/45.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the LORD who does all these.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/45.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the LORD who does all these.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/45.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />The One forming light and creating darkness, Producing peace and creating calamity; I am Yahweh who does all these.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/45.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing peace and creating disaster; I am the LORD who does all these things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/45.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />I form light and create darkness, I make success and create disaster; I am the LORD, who does all these things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/45.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />I form light and create darkness, I make success and create disaster; I, Yahweh, do all these things.&#8221 <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/45.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/45.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I create light and darkness, happiness and sorrow. I, the LORD, do all this. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/45.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am the LORD, that doeth all these things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/45.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />I make light and create darkness. I make blessings and create disasters. I, the LORD, do all these things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/45.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />I create both light and darkness; I bring both blessing and disaster. I, the LORD, do all these things. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/45.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"I form light and create darkness, I make goodness and create disaster. I am the LORD, who does all these things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/45.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/45.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/45.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/45.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/45.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/45.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Forming light, and creating darkness, "" Making peace, and creating calamity, "" I [am] YHWH, doing all these things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/45.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I am Jehovah, doing all these things.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/45.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />I shall form light and create darkness: making peace and creating evil: I Jehovah doing all these.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/45.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/45.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />I form the light and create the darkness. I make peace and create disaster. I, the Lord, do all these things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/45.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />I form the light, and create the darkness, I make weal and create woe; I, the LORD, do all these things. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/45.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />I form light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe; I the LORD do all these things.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/45.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />I form light and create darkness; I make peace and create hardship; I the LORD do all these things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/45.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />For he formed light and he created darkness, he made peace and he created evil. I AM LORD JEHOVAH, I who have done all these things<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/45.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am the LORD, that doeth all these things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/45.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />I am he that prepared light, and formed darkness; who make peace, and create evil; I am the Lord God, that does all these things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/45-7.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=10075" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/45.htm">God Calls Cyrus</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">6</span>so that all may know, from where the sun rises to where it sets, that there is none but Me; I am the LORD, and there is no other. <span class="reftext">7</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3335.htm" title="3335: yō·w·ṣêr (V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- Probably identical with yatsar;); to mould into a form; especially as a potter; figuratively, to determine (i.e. Form a resolution).">I form</a> <a href="/hebrew/216.htm" title="216: ’ō·wr (N-cs) -- A light. From 'owr; illumination or luminary.">the light</a> <a href="/hebrew/1254.htm" title="1254: ū·ḇō·w·rê (Conj-w:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To create, to cut down, select, feed. A primitive root; to create; to cut down, select, feed.">and create</a> <a href="/hebrew/2822.htm" title="2822: ḥō·šeḵ (N-ms) -- From chashak; the dark; hence darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness.">the darkness;</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ‘ō·śeh (V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">I bring</a> <a href="/hebrew/7965.htm" title="7965: šā·lō·wm (N-ms) -- Or shalom; from shalam; safe, i.e. well, happy, friendly; also welfare, i.e. Health, prosperity, peace.">prosperity</a> <a href="/hebrew/1254.htm" title="1254: ū·ḇō·w·rê (Conj-w:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To create, to cut down, select, feed. A primitive root; to create; to cut down, select, feed.">and create</a> <a href="/hebrew/7451.htm" title="7451: rā‘ (Adj-ms) -- Bad, evil. From ra'a'; bad or evil.">calamity.</a> <a href="/hebrew/589.htm" title="589: ’ă·nî (Pro-1cs) -- I. Contracted from 'anokiy; I.">I,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ‘ō·śeh (V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">do</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: ḵāl (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">all</a> <a href="/hebrew/428.htm" title="428: ’êl·leh (Pro-cp) -- These. Prolonged from 'el; these or those.">these things.</a> </span><span class="reftext">8</span>Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/1-1.htm">Genesis 1:1-3</a></span><br />In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. / Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. / And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/3-6.htm">Amos 3:6</a></span><br />If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/2-10.htm">Job 2:10</a></span><br />“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/3-38.htm">Lamentations 3:38</a></span><br />Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/32-39.htm">Deuteronomy 32:39</a></span><br />See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/2-6.htm">1 Samuel 2:6-7</a></span><br />The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up. / The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ecclesiastes/7-14.htm">Ecclesiastes 7:14</a></span><br />In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/18-6.htm">Jeremiah 18:6-10</a></span><br />“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel. / At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed. / But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/daniel/4-35.htm">Daniel 4:35</a></span><br />All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/104-24.htm">Psalm 104:24-30</a></span><br />How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures. / Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small. / There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/75-6.htm">Psalm 75:6-7</a></span><br />For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert, / but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/9-19.htm">Romans 9:19-21</a></span><br />One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?” / But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?” / Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/1-17.htm">James 1:17</a></span><br />Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/1-3.htm">John 1:3</a></span><br />Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/colossians/1-16.htm">Colossians 1:16-17</a></span><br />For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him. / He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.</p><p class="hdg">form</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/1-3.htm">Genesis 1:3-5,17,18</a></b></br> And God said, Let there be light: and there was light… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/8-3.htm">Psalm 8:3</a></b></br> When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/104-20.htm">Psalm 104:20-23</a></b></br> Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep <i>forth</i>… </p><p class="hdg">create darkness</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/10-21.htm">Exodus 10:21-23</a></b></br> And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness <i>which</i> may be felt… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/14-20.htm">Exodus 14:20</a></b></br> And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness <i>to them</i>, but it gave light by night <i>to these</i>: so that the one came not near the other all the night.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/13-16.htm">Jeremiah 13:16</a></b></br> Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, <i>and</i> make <i>it</i> gross darkness.</p><p class="hdg">I make Peace</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/10-5.htm">Isaiah 10:5,6</a></b></br> O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/2-10.htm">Job 2:10</a></b></br> But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/34-29.htm">Job 34:29</a></b></br> When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth <i>his</i> face, who then can behold him? whether <i>it be done</i> against a nation, or against a man only:</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/44-3.htm">Blessing</a> <a href="/proverbs/28-14.htm">Calamity</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-25.htm">Causing</a> <a href="/isaiah/4-5.htm">Create</a> <a href="/genesis/2-3.htm">Creating</a> <a href="/isaiah/45-3.htm">Dark</a> <a href="/isaiah/45-3.htm">Darkness</a> <a href="/isaiah/31-2.htm">Disaster</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-22.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-1.htm">Form</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-2.htm">Forming</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-2.htm">Giver</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-6.htm">Light</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-24.htm">Maker</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-25.htm">Making</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-19.htm">Peace</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-5.htm">Preparing</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-15.htm">Prosperity</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-3.htm">Sending</a> <a href="/psalms/119-122.htm">Well-Being</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-1.htm">Woe</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/51-2.htm">Blessing</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-11.htm">Calamity</a> <a href="/isaiah/48-17.htm">Causing</a> <a href="/isaiah/45-18.htm">Create</a> <a href="/isaiah/57-18.htm">Creating</a> <a href="/isaiah/45-19.htm">Dark</a> <a href="/isaiah/45-19.htm">Darkness</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-11.htm">Disaster</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-11.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/isaiah/52-14.htm">Form</a> <a href="/isaiah/45-12.htm">Forming</a> <a href="/luke/14-9.htm">Giver</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-14.htm">Light</a> <a href="/isaiah/45-9.htm">Maker</a> <a href="/isaiah/45-9.htm">Making</a> <a href="/isaiah/48-18.htm">Peace</a> <a href="/ezekiel/24-10.htm">Preparing</a> <a href="/isaiah/54-13.htm">Prosperity</a> <a href="/isaiah/46-11.htm">Sending</a> <a href="/isaiah/48-18.htm">Well-Being</a> <a href="/isaiah/45-9.htm">Woe</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 45</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/45-1.htm">God calls Cyrus for his church's sake</a></span><br><span class="reftext">5. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/45-5.htm">By his omnipotence he challenges obedience</a></span><br><span class="reftext">20. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/45-20.htm">He convinces the idols of vanity by his saving power</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/isaiah/45.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/isaiah/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/isaiah/45.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>I form the light and create the darkness;</b><br>This phrase emphasizes God's sovereignty over all creation. The imagery of light and darkness is prevalent throughout the Bible, often symbolizing good and evil, knowledge and ignorance, or order and chaos. In <a href="/genesis/1-3.htm">Genesis 1:3-4</a>, God creates light, separating it from darkness, establishing His authority over the physical universe. The duality of light and darkness also appears in <a href="/john/1-5.htm">John 1:5</a>, where light represents Christ and His truth overcoming the darkness of the world. This phrase underscores that God is the ultimate source of all that exists, both seen and unseen.<p><b>I bring prosperity and create calamity.</b><br>Here, the text highlights God's control over human affairs, including both blessings and adversities. The word "prosperity" can be understood as peace, well-being, or success, while "calamity" refers to disaster or misfortune. This duality reflects the biblical theme that God uses both positive and negative circumstances to fulfill His purposes. In <a href="/deuteronomy/32-39.htm">Deuteronomy 32:39</a>, God declares His power to give life and death, to wound and heal, reinforcing His comprehensive authority. The idea that God can use calamity for His purposes is seen in the story of Joseph (<a href="/genesis/50-20.htm">Genesis 50:20</a>), where God uses Joseph's suffering to save many lives.<p><b>I, the LORD, do all these things.</b><br>This statement reaffirms the central theme of God's omnipotence and active involvement in the world. The use of "LORD" (YHWH) signifies the covenant name of God, emphasizing His eternal and unchanging nature. This declaration serves as a reminder of God's ultimate control over all events, aligning with passages like <a href="/romans/8-28.htm">Romans 8:28</a>, which assures believers that God works all things for good for those who love Him. It also reflects the prophetic assurance that God's plans will prevail, as seen in <a href="/isaiah/46-10.htm">Isaiah 46:10</a>, where God declares the end from the beginning. This phrase calls believers to trust in God's wisdom and sovereignty, even when His ways are beyond human understanding.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a></b><br>A major prophet in the Old Testament, Isaiah's ministry spanned the reigns of several kings of Judah. He is known for his prophecies concerning the coming of the Messiah and the salvation of the Lord.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/c/cyrus.htm">Cyrus</a></b><br>Although not mentioned directly in this verse, <a href="/bsb/isaiah/45.htm">Isaiah 45</a> is part of a prophecy concerning Cyrus, the Persian king whom God anointed to deliver Israel from Babylonian captivity.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/j/judah.htm">Judah</a></b><br>The southern kingdom of Israel, which was in exile during the time of this prophecy. Isaiah's message was meant to bring hope and assurance of God's sovereignty to the exiled people.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/b/babylon.htm">Babylon</a></b><br>The empire that conquered Judah and took its people into exile. The prophecy in <a href="/bsb/isaiah/45.htm">Isaiah 45</a> speaks to the eventual downfall of Babylon and the liberation of the Jewish people.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD (Yahweh)</a></b><br>The covenant name of God, emphasizing His eternal, self-existent nature and His role as the sovereign Creator and Sustainer of the universe.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty.htm">God's Sovereignty</a></b><br>Recognize that God is in control of all aspects of life, both light and darkness, prosperity and calamity. This understanding should lead to trust and reliance on His wisdom and plan.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/p/purpose_in_adversity.htm">Purpose in Adversity</a></b><br>Understand that God can use difficult circumstances for His purposes. Believers are called to seek His will and grow in faith through trials.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/response_to_god's_authority.htm">Response to God's Authority</a></b><br>Our response to God's sovereignty should be one of humility and submission, acknowledging that His ways are higher than our ways.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_in_god's_plan.htm">Hope in God's Plan</a></b><br>Even in times of darkness or calamity, believers can have hope, knowing that God is working out His divine plan for redemption and restoration.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/b/balance_of_light_and_darkness.htm">Balance of Light and Darkness</a></b><br>Embrace the balance of life’s experiences, trusting that God’s creation of both light and darkness serves His greater purpose.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_45.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 45</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_isaiah_45_7_contradict_evil's_origin.htm">If Isaiah 45:7 claims God creates both light and darkness, does this contradict other passages suggesting evil originates solely from humanity or Satan? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_god_create_both_good_and_evil.htm">Does God create both good and evil?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_defines_animism.htm">What defines animism as a belief system?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_is_the_problem_of_evil.htm">What is the problem of evil?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/45.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(7) <span class= "bld">I make peace, and create evil . . .</span>--The words have no bearing on the insoluble problem of what we call the origin of evil. "Evil," as opposed to "peace" or prosperity, is suffering, but not sin; normally, in the Divine counsels, at once the consequence and corrective of moral evil (comp. <a href="/isaiah/47-11.htm" title="Therefore shall evil come on you; you shall not know from where it rises: and mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you shall not know.">Isaiah 47:11</a>; <a href="/isaiah/57-1.htm" title="The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.">Isaiah 57:1</a>.)<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/45.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 7.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">I form the light, and create darkness</span>. It has been recently denied that there is any allusion in these words, or in those which follow, to the Zoroastrian tenets; and it has even been asserted that the religion of the early Achaemenian kings was free from the taint of dualism. But according to some authorities, "a god of lies" is mentioned in the Behistun inscription; and the evidence is exceedingly strong that dualism was an essential part of the Zoroastrian religion long before the time of Cyrus (see 'Ancient Monarchies,' vol. 2. pp. 332, 333, 2nd edit.). It is quite reasonable to suppose that Isaiah would be acquainted with the belief of the Persians and Medes, who had come in contact with the Assyrians as early as B.C.. 830; and a warning against the chief error of their religion would be quite in place when he was holding up Cyrus to his countrymen as entitled to their respect and veneration. The <span class="accented">nexus</span> of the words, "I am the Lord, <span class="accented">and there is none else. I form the light</span>, <span class="accented">and create darkness</span>," is such as naturally to suggest an intended antagonism to the Zoroastrian system. Under that, Ormuzd created "light" and "peace," Ahriman "darkness" and "evil." The two were eternal adversaries, engaged in an inter-ruinable contest. Ormuzd, it is true, claimed the undivided allegiance of mankind, since he was their maker; but Ahriman was a great power, terribly formidable - perhaps a god (<span class="accented">diva</span>) <span class="accented">-</span> certainly the chief of the devas. It was from Zoroastrianism that Manicheism derived its doctrine of the two principles, and to the same source may, with much probability, be traced the "devil-worshippers" of the Zagros mountain chain. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/45-7.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">I form</span><br /><span class="heb">יוֹצֵ֥ר</span> <span class="translit">(yō·w·ṣêr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3335.htm">Strong's 3335: </a> </span><span class="str2">To mould into a, form, as a, potter, to determine</span><br /><br /><span class="word">light</span><br /><span class="heb">אוֹר֙</span> <span class="translit">(’ō·wr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_216.htm">Strong's 216: </a> </span><span class="str2">Illumination, luminary</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and create</span><br /><span class="heb">וּבוֹרֵ֣א</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḇō·w·rê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1254.htm">Strong's 1254: </a> </span><span class="str2">To create, to cut down, select, feed</span><br /><br /><span class="word">darkness;</span><br /><span class="heb">חֹ֔שֶׁךְ</span> <span class="translit">(ḥō·šeḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2822.htm">Strong's 2822: </a> </span><span class="str2">The dark, darkness, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness</span><br /><br /><span class="word">I bring</span><br /><span class="heb">עֹשֶׂ֥ה</span> <span class="translit">(‘ō·śeh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To do, make</span><br /><br /><span class="word">prosperity</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׁל֖וֹם</span> <span class="translit">(šā·lō·wm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7965.htm">Strong's 7965: </a> </span><span class="str2">Safe, well, happy, friendly, welfare, health, prosperity, peace</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and create</span><br /><span class="heb">וּב֣וֹרֵא</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḇō·w·rê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1254.htm">Strong's 1254: </a> </span><span class="str2">To create, to cut down, select, feed</span><br /><br /><span class="word">calamity.</span><br /><span class="heb">רָ֑ע</span> <span class="translit">(rā‘)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7451.htm">Strong's 7451: </a> </span><span class="str2">Bad, evil</span><br /><br /><span class="word">I,</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲנִ֥י</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·nî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_589.htm">Strong's 589: </a> </span><span class="str2">I</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the LORD,</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוָ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">do</span><br /><span class="heb">עֹשֶׂ֥ה</span> <span class="translit">(‘ō·śeh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To do, make</span><br /><br /><span class="word">all</span><br /><span class="heb">כָל־</span> <span class="translit">(ḵāl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">these things.</span><br /><span class="heb">אֵֽלֶּה׃</span> <span class="translit">(’êl·leh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_428.htm">Strong's 428: </a> </span><span class="str2">These, those</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/45-7.htm">Isaiah 45:7 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/45-7.htm">Isaiah 45:7 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/45-7.htm">Isaiah 45:7 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/45-7.htm">Isaiah 45:7 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/45-7.htm">Isaiah 45:7 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/45-7.htm">Isaiah 45:7 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/45-7.htm">Isaiah 45:7 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/45-7.htm">Isaiah 45:7 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/45-7.htm">Isaiah 45:7 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/45-7.htm">Isaiah 45:7 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/45-7.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 45:7 I form the light and create darkness (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/45-6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 45:6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 45:6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/45-8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 45:8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 45:8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>