Lamentations 3:38

WEB

³⁸Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

KJV

³⁸Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

BSB

³⁸Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

FBV

³⁸^[+] When the Most High speaks it can be a disaster or a blessing.

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Extra References

Isaiah 45:7

⁷I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.

Amos 3:6

⁶Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and the LORD hasn’t done it?

Jeremiah 32:42

⁴²For the LORD says: “Just as I have brought all this great evil on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them.

Job 2:10

¹⁰But 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.

Psalms 75:7

⁷But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

Proverbs 29:26

²⁶Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man’s justice comes from the LORD.