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Isaiah 45:7 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 45 · verse 7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.Isaiah 45:7 · King James Version
Isaiah 45:7 in context
5I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
6That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
8Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
9Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
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Key words (Strong's)
- darknesschôshekthe darkH2822 →
- createbârâʼto createH1254 →
- lightʼôwrillumination or luminaryH216 →
- peaceshâlôwmsafeH7965 →
- formyâtsarto mould into a formH3335 →
- makeʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 5-10