Lamentations 3:38
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
Lamentations 3:38 in other translations
| BSB | Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High? |
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| 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? |
| YLT | From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good. |
| DARBY | Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good? |
| BBE | Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High? |
| Webster | Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? |
What does Lamentations 3:38 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:37-39
37-39. Who is it that can (as God, Psa 33:9) effect by a word anything, without the will of God?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 3:37-41
While there is life there is hope; and instead of complaining that things are bad, we should encourage ourselves with the hope they will be better. We are sinful men, and what we complain of, is far less than our sins deserve. We should complain to God, and not of him. We are apt, in times of calamity, to reflect on other people's ways, and blame them; but our duty is to search and try our own ways, that we may turn…
Lamentations 3:38 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 3:38
- Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
- Amos 3:6
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
- Jeremiah 32:42
For thus saith the Lord; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.
- Job 2:10
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
- Psalms 75:7
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
- Proverbs 29:26
Many seek the ruler’s favour; but every man’s judgment cometh from the Lord.
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Context
- Lamentations 3:37
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
- Lamentations 3:38
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
- Lamentations 3:39
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Lamentations 3:38 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿De la boca del Altísimo no saldrá malo y bueno? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | N’est-ce pas de la bouche du Très-haut que viennent les maux et les biens? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Das Böse und das Gute, geht es nicht aus dem Munde des Höchsten hervor? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ex ore Altissimi non egredientur nec mala nec bona? |