Isaiah 45:7
I form light and create darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
Cross References
Genesis 1:4
And seeing that the light was good, God separated the light from the darkness.

2 Kings 19:25
Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.

Psalm 104:20
You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.

Psalm 105:28
He sent darkness, and it became dark--for had they not defied His words?

Isaiah 31:2
Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.

Isaiah 42:16
I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 47:11
But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.

Jeremiah 10:16
The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things: Israel is the tribe of His inheritance; the LORD of Hosts is His name.

Lamentations 3:38
Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

Daniel 2:22
He reveals the deep and hidden things; He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him.

Amos 3:6
If a trumpet sounds in a city, will the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?

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Genesis 1:3-5, 17, 18
And God said, "Let there be light, " and there was light. . . .

Psalm 8:3
When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You set in place--

Psalm 104:20-23
You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl. . . .

Jeremiah 31:35
Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day and orders the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar--the LORD of Hosts is His name:

2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness, " made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.

create darkness

Exodus 10:21-23
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness will spread over the land of Egypt--a palpable darkness." . . .

Exodus 14:20
so that it came between the camps of Egypt and Israel. The cloud was there in the darkness, but it lit up the night. So all night long neither camp went near the other.

Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.

Ezekiel 32:8
All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness upon your land, ' declares the Lord GOD.

Joel 2:2
a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong people appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.

Amos 4:13
For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind, and reveals His thoughts to man, the One who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth, the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name."

Nahum 1:8
But with an overflowing flood, He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness.

Jude 1:6, 13
And the angels who did not stay within their own domain, but abandoned their proper dwelling, He keeps under darkness, in eternal chains for judgment on that great day. . . .

I make Peace

Isaiah 10:5, 6
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath. . . .

Job 2:10
"You speak as a foolish woman speaks, " he told her. "Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?" In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

Job 34:29
But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,

Psalm 29:11
The LORD gives His people strength; the LORD blesses His people with peace.

Psalm 75:7
but it is God who judges; He brings one down and exalts another.

Ecclesiastes 7:13, 14
Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent? . . .

Jeremiah 18:7-10
At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed. . . .

Jeremiah 51:20
"You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.

Ezekiel 14:15-21
Or if I send wild beasts through the land and they bereave it so that it becomes desolate, with no man passing through for fear of the beasts, . . .

Amos 3:6
If a trumpet sounds in a city, will the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?

Amos 5:6
Seek the LORD and live, or He will spread like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

Acts 4:28
They carried out what Your hand and purpose had decided beforehand would happen.

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