For evil does not come from the dust, nor does trouble spring from the ground;
They conceive trouble and bring forth wickedness, even their womb prepares deception.”
And when He is silent, who would then condemn? And when He hides His face, who then sees Him, whether it is against a nation or a man alone?
For we have been consumed by Your displeasure, And by Your wrath we are alarmed.
forming light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil. I, יהוה, do all these.’
Do not the evils and the good Come out of the mouth of the Most High?
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. Therefore judgment shall spring up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
‘Do not reap what grows of its own of your harvest, and do not gather the grapes of your unpruned vine, for it is a year of rest for the land.
If a ram’s horn is blown in a city, do the people not tremble? If there is calamity in a city, shall not יהוה have done it?
‘If I did not fear the enemy’s taunt, Lest their adversaries misunderstand, Lest they say, “Our hand is high, And יהוה has not done all this.” ’
See to it that no one falls short of the favour of Elohim, that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, by which many become defiled,
“And you shall see, if it goes up the way to its own border, to Bĕ