Isaiah 45:7

God sovereignly governs all things — light and darkness, peace and calamity. Nothing happens outside his rule.

Cross-references · 29

• Eccl 7:13–14Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
• Amos 3:6If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
• Ps 75:7but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.
• Job 2:10“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
• Isa 31:2Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.
• Amos 4:13For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
• Jer 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
• Jer 31:35Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:
• Jer 51:20“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
• Nah 1:8But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness.
• Amos 5:6Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
• Acts 4:28They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.
• Ps 104:20–23You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
• Ezek 32:8All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness upon your land,’ declares the Lord GOD.
• Ezek 14:15–21Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,
• Exod 10:21–23Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”
• Jer 18:7–10At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.
• Gen 1:17–18God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth,
• Ps 29:11The LORD gives His people strength; the LORD blesses His people with peace.
• Exod 14:20so that it came between the camps of Egypt and Israel. The cloud was there in the darkness, but it lit up the night. So all night long neither camp went near the other.
• Job 34:29But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,
• Isa 10:5–6Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
• Ps 8:3When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
• Joel 2:2a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.
• Jude 1:13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
• Jas 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
• Jude 1:6And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
• 2 Cor 4:6For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Gen 1:3–5And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

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