Isaiah Chapter 45 verse 7 Holy Bible

ASV Isaiah 45:7

I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.
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BBE Isaiah 45:7

I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
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DARBY Isaiah 45:7

forming the light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil: I, Jehovah, do all these things.
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KJV Isaiah 45:7

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
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WEB Isaiah 45:7

I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
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YLT Isaiah 45:7

Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I `am' Jehovah, doing all these things.'
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Isaiah 45 : 7 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - I form the light, and create darkness. It has been recently denied that there is any allusion in these words, or in those which follow, to the Zoroastrian tenets; and it has even been asserted that the religion of the early Achaemenian kings was free from the taint of dualism. But according to some authorities, "a god of lies" is mentioned in the Behistun inscription; and the evidence is exceedingly strong that dualism was an essential part of the Zoroastrian religion long before the time of Cyrus (see 'Ancient Monarchies,' vol. 2. pp. 332, 333, 2nd edit.). It is quite reasonable to suppose that Isaiah would be acquainted with the belief of the Persians and Medes, who had come in contact with the Assyrians as early as B.C.. 830; and a warning against the chief error of their religion would be quite in place when he was holding up Cyrus to his countrymen as entitled to their respect and veneration. The nexus of the words, "I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness," is such as naturally to suggest an intended antagonism to the Zoroastrian system. Under that, Ormuzd created "light" and "peace," Ahriman "darkness" and "evil." The two were eternal adversaries, engaged in an inter-ruinable contest. Ormuzd, it is true, claimed the undivided allegiance of mankind, since he was their maker; but Ahriman was a great power, terribly formidable - perhaps a god (diva) - certainly the chief of the devas. It was from Zoroastrianism that Manicheism derived its doctrine of the two principles, and to the same source may, with much probability, be traced the "devil-worshippers" of the Zagros mountain chain.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) I make peace, and create evil . . .--The words have no bearing on the insoluble problem of what we call the origin of evil. "Evil," as opposed to "peace" or prosperity, is suffering, but not sin; normally, in the Divine counsels, at once the consequence and corrective of moral evil (comp. Isaiah 47:11; Isaiah 57:1.)