Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
come from the mouth of the Most High?
New American Standard Bible
That
King James Version
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
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"?
NET Bible
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes -- both calamity and blessing?
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
מ Mem
unless the Lord has ordained it?
come from the mouth of the Most High?
any man, because of the punishment for his sins?
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 45:7
I make success and create disaster;
I, Yahweh, do all these things.
Job 2:10
“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.
Amos 3:6
aren’t people afraid?
If a disaster
hasn’t the Lord done it?
Psalm 75:7
He brings down one and exalts another.
Proverbs 29:26
but a man receives justice from the Lord.
Jeremiah 32:42
“For this is what the Lord says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on these people,