Lamentations 3:38
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?”
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BSBPD
“Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 3:38 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Samuel 16:10But the king replied, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses me because the LORD told him, ‘Curse David,’ who can ask, ‘Why did you do this?’”
- Job 2:10“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.
- Psalms 75:7but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.
- Proverbs 29:26Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man receives justice from the LORD.
- Ecclesiastes 7:14In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.
- Isaiah 45:7I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
- Jeremiah 32:42For 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.
- Amos 3:6If 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?
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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