Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Isaiah 45:7
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I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
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I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].
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I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
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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Isaiah 45
5 I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will equip you for battle, though you have not known Me,
6 so that all may know, from where the sun rises to where it sets, that there is none but Me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.
7 I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
8 Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.
9 Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
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