Isaiah 45:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Isaiah 45:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 7:13-14
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? …
Amos 3:6
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Psalms 75:7
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Job 2:10
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.
Isaiah 31:2
Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-10)

God here asserts his sole and sovereign dominion, as that which he designed to prove and manifest to the world in all the great things he did for Cyrus and by him. Observe, I. How this doctrine is here laid down concerning the sovereignty of the great Jehovah, in two things:—1. That he is God alone, and there is no God besides him. This is here inculcated as a fundamental truth, which, if it were…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. form ... create--yatzar, to give “form” to previously existing matter. Bara, to “create” from nothing the chaotic dark material. light ... darkness--literally (Ge 1:1-3), emblematical also, prosperity to Cyrus, calamity to Babylon and the nations to be vanquished [Grotius] ... Isaiah refers also to the Oriental belief in two coexistent, eternal principles, ever struggling with each other, light…