Isaiah 45:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. ”

Isaiah 45:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I form the light, and create darkness - Light, in the Bible, is the emblem of knowledge, innocence, pure religion, and of prosperity in general; and darkness is the emblem of the opposite. Light...
Isaiah 45:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

I form the (h) light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things]. (h) I send peace and war, prosperity and adversity, as in ( Amos 3:6 ).
Isaiah 45:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 44:24 to Isaiah 45:8 . Yahweh's Commission to Cyrus. Yahweh reminds Israel of His power as sole Creator of the universe. What He created He still controls, so that He falsifies the predic...
Isaiah 45:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

create. Hebrew the Poel Participle of the verb bara' (create) which, with "evil", requires the rendering "bring about". Not the same form as in verses: Isaiah 45:8 ; Isaiah 45:12 , or Isaiah 4...
Isaiah 45:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

7. Forming light. As if he had said, that they who formerly were wont to ascribe everything either to fortune or to idols shall acknowledge the true God, so as to ascribe power and the gover...
Isaiah 45:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things . I form the light, and create darkness - It was the great principle of the Magian religion, whic...
Isaiah 45:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For Jacob my servant's sake— The prophet here gives us the reasons why God shewed such favour to a prince addicted to the Pagan superstition of his country, and ignorant of the true God; that he pr...
Isaiah 45:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. I form the light, and create darkness - Yaatsar ( H3335 ), to give "form" to previou...
Isaiah 45:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Meaning of the Conquests of Cyrus 1-13. The conquests of Cyrus are ordained by Jehovah for His purposes. Let not Israel Criticise the manner of its deliverance. 14-17. Great honour awaits I...
Isaiah 45:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I make peace, and create evil... — The words have no bearing on the insoluble problem of what we call the origin of evil. “Evil,” as opposed to “peace” or prosperity, is suffering, but not sin; nor...
Isaiah 45:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 44:1-28 ; Isaiah 45:1-25 ; Isaiah 46:1-13 ; Isaiah 47:1-15 ; Isaiah 48:1-22 CHAPTER IX FOUR POINTS OF A TRUE RELIGION Isaiah 43:1-28 - Isaiah 48:1-22 WE have now surveyed the...
Isaiah 45:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jehovah's Chosen Instrument Isaiah 45:1-13 Cyrus is one of the noblest figures in ancient history. His character became a model for the Greek youth in strength, simplicity, humanity, purity, an...
Isaiah 45:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The fifth of these messages of Jehovah is a charge to Cyrus. First of all, it utters to him the promises of God which are intended to be his strength in carrying out the divine purpose. These all emp...
Isaiah 45:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is most blessed to read those scriptures, in which Jehovah takes to himself his supreme sovereignty. A believing soul finds great delight in the contemplation. For, in the first place, the self-ex...
Isaiah 45:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I form the light, and create darkness ,.... Natural light, or that light which was produced at the first creation, and of which the sun is the fountain and source; or day which is light, and night w...
Isaiah 45:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things]. Ver. 7. I form the light, and create darkness, ] sc., By withdrawing the light whence dar...
Isaiah 45:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I form the light, and create darkness , &c. All men's comforts and calamities come from my hand. “It was the great principle of the Magian religion, which prevailed in Persia in the time of Cyru...
Isaiah 45:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Divine Dominion. B. C. 708. 5 I am the L ORD , and there is none else, there...
Isaiah 45:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

All men's comforts and calamities come from my hand.
Isaiah 45:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Cyrus Has Been Called In Order To Assist God's Servant, His Chosen One ( Isaiah 45:1-8 ). Isaiah 45:1 ‘Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, To Cyrus whose right hand I have held, To subdue natio...
Isaiah 45:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE FORMER OF LIGHT AND CREATOR OF DARKNESS Isaiah 45:6-7 . I am the Lord, and there is none else, &c. These words occur in the remarkable prophecy of the capture of Babylon by Cyrus; a prop...
Isaiah 45:7 - Scofield Reference Notes

create evil Hebrew, "ra" translated "sorrow," "wretchedness," "adversity," "afflictions," "calamities," but never translated sin. God created evil only in the sense that He made sorrow, wretch...
Isaiah 45:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 45:1-4 . Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved g...
Isaiah 45:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 45:1 . Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden; a figure of Christ, the anointed of the Father. This anointing equalled Cyrus with David. Before him Go...
Isaiah 45:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

I am the Lord, and there is none else The beneficent sovereignty of God The key-thought to all the intricacies of the whole of this passage is that God is the absolute Author of all that exists...
Isaiah 45:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 45:1-23 GOD 'S WILL CONCERNING HIM ANNOUNCED TO CYRUS . This direct address of God to a heathen king is without a parallel in Scripture. Nebuchadnezzar, Pharao...
Isaiah 45:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Deliverance by Cyrus a Proof of Jehovah's Power
Isaiah 45:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 4:6 ; Acts 4:28 ; Amos 3:6 ; Amos 4:13 ; Amos 5:6 ; Ecclesiastes 7:13 ; Ecclesiastes 7:14 ; Exodus 10:21-23 ; Exodus 14:20 ; Ezekiel 14:15-21 ; Ezekiel 32:8 ; Genesis 1:17 ;...
Isaiah 45:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Light — All mens comforts and calamities come from thy hand.

Isaiah 45:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 45:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 45:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 45:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 45:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 45:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 45:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 45:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 45:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 45:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 45:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 45:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 45:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 45:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 45:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 45:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 45:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 45:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 45:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 45:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 45:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 45:7 - Scofield Reference Notes

Isaiah 45:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 45:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 45:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 45:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 45:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 45:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 45:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes