Isaiah 45:7
King James Version
7 I form the light, and create darkness:
I make peace, and create evil:
I the Lord do all these things.
GOD creates light, and makes peace.
But He also creates "darkness" and "evil"?
Wow, did I understand that right?
So, I searched other Bible versions.
Here's what I found:
Isaiah 45:7
Amplified Bible
The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing peace and creating disaster;
I am the Lord who does all these things.
Isaiah 45:7
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
7 I form the light and create darkness, I make peace [national well-being] and I create [physical] [a]evil (calamity); I am the Lord, Who does all these things.
Isaiah 45:7
Christian Standard Bible
7 I form light and create darkness,
I make success and create disaster;
I am the Lord, who does all these things.
Isaiah 45:7
Common English Bible
7 I form light and create darkness,
make prosperity and create doom;
I am the Lord, who does all these things.
Isaiah 45:7
Complete Jewish Bible
7 I form light, I create darkness;
I make well-being, I create woe;
I, Adonai, do all these things.
Isaiah 45:7
Contemporary English Version
7 I create light and darkness,
happiness and sorrow.
I, the Lord, do all this.
Isaiah 45:7
Easy-to-Read Version
7 I made the light and the darkness.
I bring peace, and I cause trouble.
I, the Lord, do all these things.
Isaiah 45:7
English Standard Version
7 I form light and create darkness;
I make well-being and create calamity;
I am the Lord, who does all these things.
Isaiah 45:7
Expanded Bible
7 I make the light
and create the darkness.
I bring ·peace [prosperity; wholeness; C Hebrew shalom], and I ·cause [create] ·troubles [disaster; calamity].
I, the Lord, do all these things.
Isaiah 45:7
Good News Translation
7 I create both light and darkness;
I bring both blessing and disaster.
I, the Lord, do all these things.
Isaiah 45:7
International Children’s Bible
7 I made the light and the darkness.
I bring peace, and I cause troubles.
I, the Lord, do all these things.
Isaiah 45:7
Living Bible
7 I form the light and make the dark. I send good times and bad. I, Jehovah, am he who does these things.
Isaiah 45:7
The Message
I form light and create darkness,
I make harmonies and create discords.
I, God, do all these things.
Isaiah 45:7
New Catholic Bible
7 I form the light and create the darkness;
prosperity and disaster depend upon my will;
I, the Lord, do all these things.
Isaiah 45:7
New Century Version
7 I made the light and the darkness.
I bring peace, and I cause troubles.
I, the Lord, do all these things.
Isaiah 45:7
New International Reader's Version
7 I cause light to shine. I also create darkness.
I bring good times. I also create hard times.
I do all these things. I am the Lord.
Isaiah 45:7
New Life Version
7 I make light and I make darkness. I bring good and I make trouble. I am the Lord Who does all these things.
Yeshayah 45:7
Orthodox Jewish Bible
7 I form ohr, and create choshech; I make shalom, and create rah; I Hashem worketh all these things.
In SUMMARY, "create evil" means:
creating disaster
create [physical] [a]evil (calamity)
create disaster
create doom
create woe
sorrow
cause trouble
create calamity
cause [create] ·troubles [disaster; calamity]
disaster
cause troubles
bad
create discords
cause troubles
create hard times
make trouble
create rah
In SUMMARY, "peace" means:
national well-being
success
prosperity
well-being
happiness
prosperity; wholeness; C Hebrew shalom
blessing
good times
harmonies
good
shalom
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