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 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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