Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes -- both calamity and blessing?
New American Standard Bible
That
King James Version
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
Holman Bible
come from the mouth of the Most High?
International Standard Version
Do not both good and evil things proceed from the mouth of the Most High?
A Conservative Version
Out of the mouth of the Most High does there not come evil and good.
American Standard Version
Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?
Amplified
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That both adversity (misfortune) and good (prosperity, happiness) proceed?
Bible in Basic English
Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
Darby Translation
Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good?
Julia Smith Translation
From the mouth of the Most High shall not come forth evil and good.
King James 2000
Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Is] it not from the mouth of the Most High [that] disaster and good will come?
Modern King James verseion
From the mouth of the Most High does not go out the evil and the good.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
out of the mouth of the most Highest goeth not evil and good"?
New Heart English Bible
Doesn't both calamity and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
The Emphasized Bible
Out of the mouth of the Most High, Proceed there not misfortunes and blessing?
Webster
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
World English Bible
Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
Youngs Literal Translation
From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:38
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
37 (Mem) Whose command was ever fulfilled unless the Lord decreed it? 38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes -- both calamity and blessing? 39 Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins?
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 45:7
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
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
If an alarm sounds in a city, do people not fear? If disaster overtakes a city, is the Lord not responsible?
Psalm 75:7
For God is the judge! He brings one down and exalts another.
Proverbs 29:26
Many people seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the Lord that one receives justice.
Jeremiah 32:42
"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.