I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. Treasury of Scripture form Genesis 1:3-5,17,18 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light... Psalm 8:3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained; Psalm 104:20-23 You make darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth... Jeremiah 31:35 Thus said the LORD, which gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night... 2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts... James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no ficklenss... create darkness Exodus 10:21-23 And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt... Exodus 14:20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them... Jeremiah 13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and... Ezekiel 32:8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, said the Lord GOD. Joel 2:2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread on the mountains... Amos 4:13 For, see, he that forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, that makes the morning darkness... Nahum 1:8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. Jude 1:6,13 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation... I make Peace Isaiah 10:5,6 O Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation... Job 2:10 But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God... Job 34:29 When he gives quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hides his face, who then can behold him?... Psalm 29:11 The LORD will give strength to his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace. Psalm 75:7 But God is the judge: he puts down one, and sets up another. Ecclesiastes 7:13,14 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked... Jeremiah 18:7-10 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it... Jeremiah 51:20 You are my battle ax and weapons of war: for with you will I break in pieces the nations, and with you will I destroy kingdoms; Ezekiel 14:15-21 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate... 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 has not done it? Amos 5:6 Seek the LORD, and you shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it... Acts 4:28 For to do whatever your hand and your counsel determined before to be done.
Context God Calls Cyrus
1Thus said the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; 2I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: 3And I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I, the LORD, which call you by your name, am the God of Israel. 4For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my elect, I have even called you by your name: I have surnamed you, though you have not known me. 5I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded you, though you have 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, you 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 to him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What make you? or your work, He has no hands? 10Woe to him that said to his father, What beget you? or to the woman, What have you brought forth? 11Thus said the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command you me. 12I have made the earth, and created man on it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. 13I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, said the LORD of hosts. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.
Douay-Rheims Bible
I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.
Darby Bible Translation
forming the light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil: I, Jehovah, do all these things.
King James Bible
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Young's Literal Translation
Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I am Jehovah, doing all these things.'
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