Lamentations 3:38

KJV1611 – Modern English

Does not both calamity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

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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 said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not 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 calamity in a city, and the LORD has not brought it?
  • Jer 32:42 : 42 For thus says the LORD; 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 puts down one and exalts another.
  • Prov 29:26 : 26 Many seek the ruler's favor; but every man's judgment comes from the LORD.

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