Isa 45:7-8 | ESV | STEP | I form light and create darkness , I make well-being and create calamity ; I am the Lord , who does all these things .

‏ Isaiah 45:7-8

7 I form light and create darkness,
I make well-being and ^acreate calamity;
I am the Lord, who does all these things.
8 ^b“Shower, O heavens, from above,
and ^clet the clouds rain down righteousness;
let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit;
let the earth cause them both to sprout;
I the Lord have created it.