Lamentations 3:38

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

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  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light and create darkness; I make peace and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
  • Job 2:10 : 10 But he replied, 'You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?' In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
  • Amos 3:6 : 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?
  • Jer 32:42 : 42 This is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.
  • Ps 75:7 : 7 For exaltation does not come from the east, the west, or the wilderness.
  • Prov 29:26 : 26 Many seek an audience with a ruler, but it is from the LORD that a man receives justice.

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