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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 the light from the darkness. (Gen. 1:3‑4)
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Psa. 29:11• 11The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord 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 the Lord hath not 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 the light from the darkness.
 5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
 17And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
 18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. (Gen. 1:3‑5,17‑18)
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Psa. 8:3• 3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; (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 do creep forth.
 21The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
 22The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.
 23Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labor until the evening. (Psa. 104:20‑23)
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Jer. 31:35• 35Thus 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: (Jer. 31:35)
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2 Cor. 4:6• 6For 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. (2 Cor. 4:6)
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James 1:17• 17Every 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. (James 1:17)
create darkness.
Ex. 10:21‑23• 21And 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.
 22And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all 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 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. (Ex. 14:20)
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Jer. 13:16• 16Give 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. (Jer. 13:16)
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Ezek. 32:8• 8All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God. (Ezek. 32:8)
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Joel 2:2• 2A 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. (Joel 2:2)
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Amos 4:13• 13For, 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. (Amos 4:13)
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Nah. 1:8• 8But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. (Nah. 1:8)
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Jude 6,13• 6And 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.
 13Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. (Jude 6,13)
I make Peace.
Isa. 10:5‑6• 5O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
 6I 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. (Isa. 10:5‑6)
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Job 2:10• 10But 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 2:10)
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Job 34:29• 29When 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: (Job 34:29)
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Psa. 29:11• 11The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace. (Psa. 29:11)
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Psa. 75:7• 7But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. (Psa. 75:7)
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Eccl. 7:13‑14• 13Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
 14In 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. (Eccl. 7:13‑14)
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Jer. 18:7‑10• 7At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
 8If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
 9And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
 10If 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. 18:7‑10)
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Jer. 51:20• 20Thou 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; (Jer. 51:20)
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Ezek. 14:15‑21• 15If 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:
 16Though 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.
 17Or 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:
 18Though 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.
 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:
 20Though 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.
 21For 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? (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 the Lord hath not done it? (Amos 3:6)
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Amos 5:6• 6Seek 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 Beth-el. (Amos 5:6)
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Acts 4:28• 28For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. (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."