God’s Justice
Lamentations 3:38
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
- KJV
- Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
- WEB
- Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
- ASV
- Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?
- LSV
- From the mouth of the Most High does not go forth the evils and the good.
- YLT
- From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good.
- DBY
- Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good?
- DRC
- Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?
- GNV
- Out of the mouth of the most high proceedeth not euill and good?
- JPS
- Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good?
- LXXE
- Out of the mouth of the Most High there shall not come forth evil and good.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- מִפִּ֤י עֶלְיוֹן֙ לֹ֣א תֵצֵ֔א הָרָע֖וֹת וְהַטּֽוֹב׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἐκ στόματος ὑψίστου οὐκ ἐξελεύσεται τὰ κακὰ καὶ τὸ ἀγαθόν.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Isaiah 45:7I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
- Amos 3:6If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
- Jeremiah 32:42For this is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I will bring on them all the good I have promised them.
- Job 2:10“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
- Psalms 75:7but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.
- Proverbs 29:26Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man receives justice from the LORD.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).