Verse 7

I form the light and create darkness; I make peace and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

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Referenced Verses

  • Amos 3:6 : 6 Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city unless the Lord has done it?
  • Eccl 7:13-14 : 13 Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what he has made crooked? 14 When times are good, be joyful; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future.
  • Amos 4:13 : 13 For behold, He who forms the mountains and creates the wind, who reveals His thoughts to mankind, who turns dawn to darkness and treads on the heights of the earth—the LORD God of Hosts is His name.
  • Isa 31:2 : 2 Yet He is wise and brings disaster; He does not take back His words. He will rise against the house of evildoers and against the help of those who practice wickedness.
  • Nah 1:8 : 8 But with an overwhelming flood he will make an end of Nineveh; he will pursue his enemies into darkness.
  • Ps 75:7 : 7 For exaltation does not come from the east, the west, or the wilderness.
  • Job 2:10 : 10 But he replied, 'You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?' In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
  • Jer 31:35 : 35 This is what the LORD says, the one who sets the sun to give light by day, who established the laws of the moon and stars to give light by night, who stirs the sea and makes its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is his name:
  • Acts 4:28 : 28 'They did what your hand and will had predestined to take place.'
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the darkening mountains. You hope for light, but He will turn it to gloom and thick darkness.
  • Jude 1:6 : 6 And the angels who did not stay within their proper domain but abandoned their dwelling, He has kept in eternal chains under darkness for the judgment on the great day.
  • Jer 51:20 : 20 You are My war club, My weapon of battle: with you, I shatter nations, and with you, I destroy kingdoms.
  • Ps 104:20-23 : 20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the animals of the forest come out. 21 The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God. 22 The sun rises, and they withdraw and lie down in their dens. 23 Man goes out to his work and to his labor until evening.
  • Job 34:29 : 29 When He gives quietness, who can condemn? When He hides His face, who can behold Him? Yet He watches over both nation and man alike.
  • Exod 10:21-23 : 21 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness may spread over Egypt—a darkness that can be felt." 22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and thick darkness covered all Egypt for three days. 23 No one could see anyone else or move from their place for three days. But all the Israelites had light where they lived.
  • Exod 14:20 : 20 It came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. There was a cloud and darkness, yet it lit up the night, and neither side approached the other all night long.
  • Isa 10:5-6 : 5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger, in whose hands is the staff of My indignation! 6 I send him against a godless nation; I dispatch him against a people at My wrath, to seize plunder, to take spoil, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.
  • Ezek 14:15-21 : 15 If I send wild beasts through the land and they ravage it, leaving it desolate so that no one can pass through because of the beasts, 16 even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, they could not save their sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would become desolate. 17 Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, 'Let a sword pass through the land,' and I cut off from it both man and beast, 18 even if these three men were there, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, they could not save sons or daughters. They alone would be saved. 19 Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out my wrath upon it in bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast, 20 even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, they could not save son or daughter. They would save only themselves by their righteousness. 21 For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: How much worse will it be when I send my four dreadful judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—against Jerusalem, to cut off both man and beast from it!
  • Ezek 32:8 : 8 All the shining lights in the sky I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness over your land, declares the Lord GOD.
  • Joel 2:2 : 2 It is a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness. Like the dawn spreading over the mountains, a great and mighty army comes, unlike any seen before, and none will be seen again for generations to follow.
  • Jer 18:7-9 : 7 At any moment I might speak concerning a nation or a kingdom, to uproot it, tear it down, or destroy it. 8 But if that nation I have warned repents of its evil, then I will relent concerning the disaster I had planned to bring upon it. 9 And at another moment I might speak concerning a nation or kingdom, to build it up or to plant it. 10 But if it does evil in My sight by not listening to My voice, then I will relent concerning the good I had promised to bless it with.
  • Amos 5:6 : 6 Seek the Lord and live, or he will rush like fire against the house of Joseph; it will consume everything, and there will be no one to quench it for Bethel.
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For God, who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,' has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • Jas 1:17 : 17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
  • Gen 1:3-5 : 3 Then God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light 'day,' and the darkness he called 'night.' And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
  • Gen 1:17-18 : 17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
  • Ps 8:3 : 3 Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies, You have established strength because of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and the avenger.
  • Ps 29:11 : 11 The Lord gives strength to His people; the Lord blesses His people with peace.