Lamentations 3:38 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and evil come?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Out of the mouth of the Most High Proceedeth not evil and good?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Is it not out of the mouth of the Most High that evil and good both proceed [adversity and prosperity, physical evil or misfortune and physical good or happiness]?

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

From the mouth of the Most High evil things don’t come, but rather good!

Catholic Public Domain Version

MEM. Does not both misfortune and good proceed from the mouth of the Most High?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?

Lamentations 3:38 Cross References

2 Samuel 16:10

But the king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the Lord has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”

Job 2:10

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Psalm 75:7

but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.

Proverbs 29:26

Many seek the favor of a ruler, but from the Lord a man gets justice.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

Isaiah 45:7

I form light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe, I am the Lord, who do all these things.

Jeremiah 32:42

“For thus says the Lord: Just as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise them.

Amos 3:6

Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does evil befall a city, unless the Lord has done it?