Lamentations 3:38

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Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes– both calamity and blessing?

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I am the one who forms light and creates darkness; the one who brings about peace and creates calamity. I am the LORD, who accomplishes all these things.
  • Job 2:10 : 10 But he replied,“You’re talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?” In all this Job did not sin by what he said.
  • Amos 3:6 : 6 If an alarm sounds in a city, do people not fear? If disaster overtakes a city, is the LORD not responsible?
  • Jer 32:42 : 42 “For I, the LORD, say:‘I will surely bring on these people all the good fortune that I am hereby promising them. I will be just as sure to do that as I have been in bringing all this great disaster on them.
  • Ps 75:7 : 7 For God is the judge! He brings one down and exalts another.
  • Prov 29:26 : 26 Many people seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the LORD that one receives justice.

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