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Lamentations 3:38 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 3 · verse 38
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?Lamentations 3:38 · King James Version
Lamentations 3:38 in context
36To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.
37Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
38Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
39Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
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Key words (Strong's)
- proceedethyâtsâʼto go out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and…H3318 →
- mouthpehthe mouth , whether literal or figurativeH6310 →
- Highʻelyôwnan elevationH5945 →
- evilraʻbad or evilH7451 →
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That we may be entitled to the comforts administered to the afflicted in the foregoing verses, and may taste the sweetness of them, we have here the duties of an afflicted state prescribed to us, in the performance of which we may expect those comforts. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 37-41