Lamentations 3:38

Tree of Life Version

Is it not from the mouth of Elyon that both calamities and good things proceed?

Cross References

Isaiah 45:7

I form light and create darkness. I make shalom and create calamity. I, Adonai, do all these things.

Amos 3:6

If a shofar alarm sounds in a city, will people not tremble? If there is calamity in a city, has not Adonai caused it?

Jeremiah 32:42

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

Job 2:10

He said to her, “You speak as any foolish woman would speak. Should we accept the good from God and not accept the bad?” Through all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Psalm 75:7

For exaltation comes not from the east nor from the west, nor even from the desert.

Proverbs 29:26

Many seek an audience with a ruler, but from Adonai one receives justice.

2 Samuel 16:10

But the king said, “What have I to do with you, sons of Zeruiah? If he curses, it’s because Adonai has said to him, ‘Curse David!’ So who should say, ‘Why did you do so?’”

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In a time of prosperity, prosper! But in a time of adversity, consider: God has made one as well as the other. Therefore man cannot discover anything about his future.