I make peace, and CREATE EVIL

[Bob Estey]

There is evil in the ethical moral sense and there is evil in the sense of bad or distressful situations/events.

King James Bible Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Was Isaiah talking about internal morals or external events?

Let's see the parallelism:

I form the light and create darkness,
I make peace and create evil

Light reflects peaceful situations and peaceful places. It is not so much about peaceful morality.

By parallelism, darkness contains evil situations. It is not so much about evil moral values.

New King James Version:


Ellicott explained:

It seems to me the biblical definition of "evil" is pain:

And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people. Exodus 32:14 RSV