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Isa 45:7 — I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

form		Gen 1:3-5,17,18; Psa 8:3; Psa 104:20-23; Jer 31:35; 2Cr 4:6; Jam 1:17
create darkness		Exd 10:21-23; Exd 14:20; Jer 13:16; Eze 32:8; Joe 2:2; Amo 4:13; Nah 1:8; Jud 1:6,13
I make peace		Isa 10:5,6; Job 2:10; Job 34:29; Psa 29:11; Psa 75:7; Ecc 7:13,14; Jer 18:7-10; Jer 51:20; Eze 14:15-21; Amo 3:6; Amo 5:6; Act 4:28

Correlating Passages

form

	Gen 1:3	And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
	Gen 1:4	And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
	Gen 1:5	And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
	Gen 1:17	And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
	Gen 1:18	And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that [it was] good.
	Psa 8:3	When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
	Psa 104:20	Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep [forth].
	Psa 104:21	The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
	Psa 104:22	The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.
	Psa 104:23	Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
	Jer 31:35	Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name:
	2Cr 4:6	For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
	Jam 1:17	Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

create darkness

	Exd 10:21	And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness [which] may be felt.
	Exd 10:22	And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
	Exd 10:23	They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
	Exd 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], but it gave light by night [to these]: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
	Jer 13:16	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, [and] make [it] gross darkness.
	Eze 32:8	All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
	Joe 2:2	A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, [even] to the years of many generations.
	Amo 4:13	For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what [is] his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, [is] his name.
	Nah 1:8	But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
	Jud 1:6	And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
	Jud 1:13	Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

I make peace

	Isa 10:5	O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
	Isa 10:6	I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
	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.
	Job 34:29	When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth [his] face, who then can behold him? whether [it be done] against a nation, or against a man only:
	Psa 29:11	The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.
	Psa 75:7	But God [is] the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
	Ecc 7:13	Consider the work of God: for who can make [that] straight, which he hath made crooked?
	Ecc 7:14	In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
	Jer 18:7	[At what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy [it];
	Jer 18:8	If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
	Jer 18:9	And [at what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant [it];
	Jer 18:10	If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
	Jer 51:20	Thou [art] my battle axe [and] weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
	Eze 14:15	If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
	Eze 14:16	[Though] these three men [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
	Eze 14:17	Or [if] I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
	Eze 14:18	Though these three men [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.
	Eze 14:19	Or [if] I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
	Eze 14:20	Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall [but] deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
	Eze 14:21	For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
	Amo 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]?
	Amo 5:6	Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour [it], and [there be] none to quench [it] in Bethel.
	Act 4:28	For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

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Scott, Thomas. "Isaiah 45:7," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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