Lamentations 3:38

World English Bible (2000)

Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
  • Job 2:10 : 10 But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.
  • Amos 3:6 : 6 Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn't done it?
  • Jer 32:42 : 42 For thus says Yahweh: Like as I have brought all this great evil on this people, so will I bring on them all the good that I have promised them.
  • Ps 75:7 : 7 But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.
  • Prov 29:26 : 26 Many seek the ruler's favor, but a man's justice comes from Yahweh.

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