Lamentations 3:38
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Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
In other translations
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Isaiah 45:7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
- Amos 3:6Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?If 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?
- Jeremiah 32:42For thus saith the Lord; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.For this is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I will bring on them all the good I have promised them.
- Job 2:10But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.“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.
- Psalm 75:7But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.
- Proverbs 29:26Many seek the ruler’s favour; but every man’s judgment cometh from the Lord.Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man receives justice from the LORD.
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