Lamentations 3:38 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁸ Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that evil and good come?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ Out of the mouth of the Most High Proceedeth not evil and good?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ 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)

³⁸ Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?

Common English Bible

³⁸ From the mouth of the Most High evil things don’t come, but rather good!

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ MEM. Does not both misfortune and good proceed from the mouth of the Most High?

Lamentations 3:38 Cross References

Isaiah 45:7

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

Amos 3:6

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

Jeremiah 32:42

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

Job 2:10

But he said to her, “You speak as any foolish woman would speak. Shall we receive good from God and 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 it is from the Lord that one gets justice.

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?’ ”

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 mortals may not find out anything that comes after them.