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NASB | Isaiah 45:7 The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the LORD who does all these. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Isaiah 45:7 The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing peace and creating disaster; I am the LORD who does all these things. |
Subject: Isaiah 45:7 |
Bible Note: Lmaddox, Possibly this will help. The Commentary Critical says of Is. 45:7: " 7. form … create—yatzar, to give “form” to previously existing matter. Bara, to “create” from nothing the chaotic dark material. light … darkness—literally (Ge 1:1–3), emblematical also, prosperity to Cyrus, calamity to Babylon and the nations to be vanquished [Grotius] … Isaiah refers also to the Oriental belief in two coexistent, eternal principles, ever struggling with each other, light or good, and darkness or evil, Oromasden and Ahrimanen. God, here, in opposition, asserts His sovereignty over both [Vitringa]. create evil—not moral evil (Jam 1:13), but in contrast to “peace” in the parallel clause, war, disaster (compare Ps 65:7; Am 3:6)." Hopefully this will help, BradK |