Lamentations 3:38

Israel's Affliction

³⁷ Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass,
Unless the Lord has commanded it?
³⁸ Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That both good and ill go forth?
³⁹ Why should any living mortal, or any man,
Offer complaint in view of his sins?

Most High

Isaiah 45:7

The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing well-being and creating calamity;
I am the Lord who does all these.

Job 2:10

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Amos 3:6

If a trumpet is blown in a city will not the people tremble?
If a calamity occurs in a city has not the Lord done it?

Psalm 75:7

But God is the Judge;
He puts down one and exalts another.

Proverbs 29:26

Many seek the ruler’s favor,
But justice for man comes from the Lord.

Jeremiah 32:42

For thus says the Lord, ‘Just as I brought all this great disaster on this people, so I am going to bring on them all the good that I am promising them.