Lexicon :: Strong's G2936 - ktizō

He blessed him and said:

Abram is blessed by God Most High,

Creator[fn] of heaven and earth,

But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand in an oath to the LORD, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,

“Tomorrow at this time I will rain down the worst hail that has ever occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

“Indeed, ask about the earlier days that preceded you, from the day God created mankind[fn] on the earth and from one end of the heavens to the other: Has anything like this great event ever happened, or has anything like it been heard of?

Is this how you repay the LORD,

you foolish and senseless people?

Isn’t he your Father and Creator?[fn]

Didn’t he make you and sustain you?

For he spoke, and it came into being;

he commanded, and it came into existence.

God, create a clean heart for me

and renew a steadfast[fn] spirit within me.

North and south ​— ​you created them.

Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at your name.

Remember how short my life is.

Have you created everyone for nothing?

This will be written for a later generation,

and a people who have not yet been created will praise the LORD:

When you send your breath,[fn]

they are created,

and you renew the surface of the ground.

Let them praise the name of the LORD,

for he commanded, and they were created.

“The LORD acquired[fn] me

at the beginning of his creation,[fn]

before his works of long ago.

So remember your Creator in the days of your youth:

Before the days of adversity come,

and the years approach when you will say,

“I have no delight in them”;

You made a reservoir between the walls for the water of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the one who made it, or consider the one who created it long ago.

“I form light and create darkness,

I make success and create disaster;

I am the LORD, who does all these things.

“I call a bird of prey[fn] from the east,

a man for my purpose from a far country.

Yes, I have spoken; so I will also bring it about.

I have planned it; I will also do it.

“Look, I have created the craftsman

who blows on the charcoal fire

and produces a weapon suitable for its task;

and I have created the destroyer to cause havoc.

How long will you turn here and there,

faithless daughter?

For the LORD creates something new in the land[fn] —

a female[fn] will shelter[fn] a man.

“You were in Eden, the garden of God.

Every kind of precious stone covered you:

carnelian, topaz, and diamond,[fn]

beryl, onyx, and jasper,

lapis lazuli, turquoise[fn] and emerald.[fn]

Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold;

they were prepared on the day you were created.

“From the day you were created

you were blameless in your ways

until wickedness was found in you.

I have been the LORD your God

ever since[fn] the land of Egypt;

you know no God but me,

and no Savior exists besides me.

He is here:

the one who forms the mountains,

creates the wind,

and reveals his thoughts to man,

the one who makes the dawn out of darkness

and strides on the heights of the earth.

The LORD, the God of Armies, is his name.

“The final glory of this house[fn] will be greater than the first,” says the LORD of Armies. “I will provide peace in this place” ​— ​this is the declaration of the LORD of Armies.

Don’t all of us have one Father? Didn’t one God create us? Why then do we act treacherously against one another, profaning the covenant of our ancestors?