Isaiah 45:7
“Now (like many other persons nowadays, especially those who have a heretical proclivity), while morbidly brooding over the question of the origin of evil, Marcion's perception became blunted by the very irregularity of his researches. When he found the Creator declaring, "I am he that creates evil," Marcion had alread…”
Source: Septuagint
7I am he that prepared light, and formed darkness; who make peace, and create evil; I am the Lord God, that does all these things.
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5For I am the Lord God, and there is no other God beside me; I strengthened thee, and thou hast not known me.
6That they that come from the east and they that come from the west may know that there is no God but me. I am the Lord God, and there is none beside.
— Isaiah 45:7 —
8Let the heaven rejoice from above, and let the clouds rain righteousness: let the earth bring forth, and blossom with mercy, and bring forth righteousness likewise: I am the Lord that created thee.
9What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the plowman plow the earth all day? shall the clay say to the potter, What art thou doing that thou dost not work, nor hast hands? shall the thing formed answer him that formed it?