Lamentations 3:38 “Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?”

Lamentations 3:38

Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

World English Bible

Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

American Standard Version

Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?

Geneva Bible 1599

Out of the mouth of the most high proceedeth not euill and good?

Darby Translation

Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good?

Young's Literal Translation

From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good.

Bible in Basic English

Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

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Cross references

“Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?”

Isaiah 45:7 Amos 3:6 Job 2:10 Psalm 75:7 Proverbs 29:26

Isaiah 45:7 · BSB

I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

Amos 3:6 · BSB

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?

Job 2:10 · BSB

“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 75:7 · BSB

but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.

Proverbs 29:26 · BSB

Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man receives justice from the LORD.

Also

Jeremiah 32:42

Jeremiah 32:42 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

37Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?

39Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?

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