Lamentations 3:38
Out of the mouth of the Most High, Proceed there not misfortunes and blessing?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
In Context
37Who was it that spake, and it was done, [when], My Lord, had not commanded?
39Why should a living son of earth complain, [Let] a man [complain] because of his sins?
Cross References
Job 2:10And he said unto her, As one of the base women speaketh, speakest thou? Blessing, shall we accept from God, and, misfortune, shall we not accept? In all this, Job sinned not with his lips.
Proverbs 29:26Many, seek the face of a ruler, but, from Yahweh, is the sentence of each one.
Isaiah 45:7Forming light and creating darkness, Making prosperity, and creating misfortune,—I—Yahweh, who doeth all these.
Amos 3:6Or a horn be blown in a city, and, a people, not tremble? Or calamity happen in a city, and, Yahweh, not have wrought with effect?
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:38-42
The Duties of the Afflicted. ( b. c. 588.) 37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? 38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? 39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord . 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. That we may be entitled to the comforts administered to the afflicted in the foregoing verses , and may taste the… Read the whole commentary →