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Apr 10, 2023 · The Hebrew word translated as “evil” (ra‘) in the King James Version of Isaiah 45:7 has two applications in the Bible. The term can be used in the sense of moral evil, such as wickedness and sin (Matthew 12:35; Judges 3:12; Proverbs 8:13; 3 John 1:11), or it can refer to harmful natural events, calamity, misfortune, adversity, affliction, or disaster.
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Isaiah 45:7 - The One forming light and creating darkness,Causing well-being and creating calamity;I am the Lord who does all these.
Jul 1, 2013 · The Strong's concordance data for the Hebrew word "rah" for "evil" carries the following variants - bad, evil, distress, misery, injury and calamity. The editorial decision for the KJV was to render the word as "evil" and this is basically where the problem or confusion lies.
- Proverbs 6:12-16 ESV / 799 helpful votes. A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
- Proverbs 28:1-28 ESV / 480 helpful votes. The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. When a land transgresses, it has many rulers, but with a man of understanding and knowledge, its stability will long continue.
- Ecclesiastes 12:14 ESV / 465 helpful votes. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
- Psalm 37:1-40 ESV / 324 helpful votes. Of David. Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.
Berean Standard Bible I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things. King James Bible I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. New King James Version
Nov 2, 2013 · The verses before v7 show that God can create calamity. The verse after v8 emphasizes his righteousness. Thus, since the context emphasizes that God can cause calamity, and denies that God creates evil (in the moral sense), the correct translation is certainly "calamity" and not "evil".
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Isaiah 45:7. 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 Cyrus, and in which probably he was educated, that there are two supreme, coeternal, and independent causes, always acting in opposition one to the other; one, the author of all good ...
