Lamentations 3:38

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Isaiah 45:7

I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

Amos 3:6

Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to 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 that I promise them.

Job 2:10

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from 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 face of a ruler, but it is from the Lord that a man 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 man may not find out anything that will be after him.