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Isaiah 45

Isa. 45:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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In form
yatsar (Hebrew #3335)
((compare 3331)); to mould into a form; especially as a potter; figuratively, to determine (i.e. form a resolution)
KJV usage: X earthen, fashion, form, frame, make(-r), potter, purpose.
Pronounce: yaw-tsar'
Origin: probably identical with 3334 (through the squeezing into shape)
the light
'owr (Hebrew #216)
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
KJV usage: bright, clear, + day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
Pronounce: ore
Origin: from 215
, and create
bara' (Hebrew #1254)
(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
KJV usage: choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).
Pronounce: baw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root
darkness
choshek (Hebrew #2822)
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
KJV usage: dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
Pronounce: kho-shek'
Origin: from 2821
: I make
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
peace
shalowm (Hebrew #7965)
from 7999; safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace
KJV usage: X do, familiar, X fare, favour, + friend, X great, (good) health, (X perfect, such as be at) peace(-able, -ably), prosper(-ity, -ous), rest, safe(-ty), salute, welfare, (X all is, be) well, X wholly.
Pronounce: shaw-lome'
Origin: or shalom {shaw-lome'}
o, and create
bara' (Hebrew #1254)
(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
KJV usage: choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).
Pronounce: baw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root
p evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
: I the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
do
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
all these things.
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Gen. 1:3‑4• 3And God said, Let there be light. And there was light.
 4And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided between the light and the darkness. (Gen. 1:3‑4)
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Psa. 29:11• 11Jehovah will give strength unto his people; Jehovah will bless his people with peace. (Psa. 29:11)
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Amos 3:6• 6Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and Jehovah not have done it? (Amos 3:6)

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Gen. 1:3‑5,17‑18• 3And God said, Let there be light. And there was light.
 4And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided between the light and the darkness.
 5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning--the first day.
 17And God set them in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth,
 18and to rule during the day and during the night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good. (Gen. 1:3‑5,17‑18)
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Psa. 8:3• 3When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established; (Psa. 8:3)
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Psa. 104:20‑23• 20Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth:
 21The young lions roar after the prey, and to seek their food from *God.
 22The sun ariseth, they retreat, and lay them down in their dens.
 23Man goeth forth unto his work, and to his labour until the evening. (Psa. 104:20‑23)
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Jer. 31:35• 35Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for light by day, the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who stirreth up the sea so that the waves thereof roar,--Jehovah of hosts is his name: (Jer. 31:35)
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2 Cor. 4:6• 6Because it is the God who spoke that out of darkness light should shine who has shone in our hearts for the shining forth of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (2 Cor. 4:6)
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James 1:17• 17Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of turning. (James 1:17)
create darkness.
Ex. 10:21‑23• 21And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward the heavens, that there may be darkness in the land of Egypt--so that one may feel darkness.
 22And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens; and there was a thick darkness throughout the land of Egypt three days:
 23they saw not one another, neither rose any from his place, for three days. But all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. (Ex. 10:21‑23)
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Ex. 14:20• 20And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and was a cloud and darkness, and lit up the night; and the one did not come near the other all the night. (Ex. 14:20)
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Jer. 13:16• 16Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the mountains of twilight; and ye shall look for light, but he will turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness. (Jer. 13:16)
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Ezek. 32:8• 8All the bright lights of the heavens will I make black over thee, and bring darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 32:8)
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Joel 2:2• 2a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and gross darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains;--a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, to the years of generations and generations. (Joel 2:2)
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Amos 4:13• 13For behold, he who formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, who maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth,--Jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name. (Amos 4:13)
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Nah. 1:8• 8But with an overrunning flood he will make a full end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. (Nah. 1:8)
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Jude 6,13• 6And angels who had not kept their own original state, but had abandoned their own dwelling, he keeps in eternal chains under gloomy darkness, to the judgment of the great day;
 13raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom has been reserved the gloom of darkness for eternity. (Jude 6,13)
I make Peace.
Isa. 10:5‑6• 5Ah! the Assyrian! the rod of mine anger! and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
 6I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge; to take the spoil, and to seize the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. (Isa. 10:5‑6)
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Job 2:10• 10But he said to her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. We have also received good from God, and should we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips. (Job 2:10)
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Job 34:29• 29When he giveth quietness, who then will disturb? and when he hideth his face, who shall behold him? and this towards a nation, or towards a man alike; (Job 34:29)
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Psa. 29:11• 11Jehovah will give strength unto his people; Jehovah will bless his people with peace. (Psa. 29:11)
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Psa. 75:7• 7For God is the judge; he putteth down one and exalteth another. (Psa. 75:7)
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Eccl. 7:13‑14• 13Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what he hath made crooked?
 14In the day of prosperity enjoy good, and in the day of adversity consider: God hath also set the one beside the other, to the end that man should find out nothing of what shall be after him. (Eccl. 7:13‑14)
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Jer. 18:7‑10• 7At the moment that I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy,
 8if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, then I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
 9And at the moment that I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant,
 10if it do evil in my sight, that it hearken not unto my voice, then I will repent of the good wherewith I said I would benefit them. (Jer. 18:7‑10)
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Jer. 51:20• 20Thou art my maul, my weapons of war: and with thee I will break in pieces the nations, and I will with thee destroy kingdoms; (Jer. 51:20)
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Ezek. 14:15‑21• 15If I cause evil beasts to pass through the land, and they bereave it, and it become a desolation, so that no one passeth through because of the beasts;
 16--though these three men should be in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters: they only should be delivered, and the land should be a desolation.
 17Or if I bring the sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, so that I cut off man and beast from it,
 18and these three men should be in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only themselves should be delivered.
 19Or 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,
 20and Noah, Daniel, and Job should be in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither son nor daughter: they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
 21For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast! (Ezek. 14:15‑21)
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Amos 3:6• 6Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and Jehovah not have done it? (Amos 3:6)
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Amos 5:6• 6Seek Jehovah, 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. (Amos 5:6)
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Acts 4:28• 28to do whatever thy hand and thy counsel had determined before should come to pass. (Acts 4:28)
• Not moral evil: Jehovah never does anything of the sort. It is impossible that God should be tempted with evils in that sense, neither tempteth He any man. But evil here and in other places means execution of judgment. (“Amos 3” by W. Kelly)
• “Evil in a city” means plague, capture, or any other severe chastening falling on it. This is all that is referred to here. (“Amos 3” by W. Kelly)
• All things are in His hands. He creates the light and the darkness, the peace and the “evil”, in the sense of disaster. (“Isaiah 45” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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forming the light and creating darkness, making peacea and creating evil: I, Jehovah, do all these things.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "prosperity."