Lamentations 3:38

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].
  • Job 2:10 : 10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
  • Amos 3:6 : 6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done [it]?
  • Jer 32:42 : 42 For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.
  • Ps 75:7 : 7 But God [is] the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
  • Prov 29:26 : 26 ¶ Many seek the ruler's favour; but [every] man's judgment [cometh] from the LORD.

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