Lamentations 3:38 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? Because he curseth, and because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David; who then shall say, Wherefore hast thou done so?

Job 2:10

But 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.

Psalm 75:7

But God is the judge: He putteth down one, and lifteth up another.

Proverbs 29:26

Many seek the ruler's favour: But a man's judgement cometh from the LORD.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God hath even made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out any thing that shall be after him.

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am the LORD, that doeth all these things.

Jeremiah 32:42

For 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.

Amos 3:6

Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? shalt evil befall a city, and the LORD hath not done it?