Lamentations 3:38 BSB

Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
מִפִּ֤י	mi.Pi	from [the] mouth of	H6310 →
עֶלְיוֹן֙	'el.yOn	[the] Most High	H5945 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
תֵצֵ֔א	te.Tze'	does it goes forth?	H3318 →
הָרָע֖וֹת	ha.ra.'ot	the troubles	H7451 →
וְהַטּֽוֹב׃	ve.ha.Tov	and the good	H2896 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Job 2:10
“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
leads to
- James 1:12
  Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
- Lamentations 3:38–41
  Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
- Job 1:21–22
  saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
Through
Isaiah 45:7
I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
leads to
- Ecclesiastes 7:13–14
  Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
- Amos 3:6
  If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
- Psalms 75:7
  but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.
- Job 2:10
  “You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
- Isaiah 31:2
  Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Isaiah 45:7I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.Amos 3:6If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?Jeremiah 32:42For this is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I will bring on them all the good I have promised them.Job 2:10“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.Psalms 75:7but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.Genesis 1:31And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.Proverbs 29:26Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man receives justice from the LORD.Job 1:21saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”Psalms 62:1In God alone my soul finds rest; my salvation comes from Him.Daniel 4:34But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.Job 20:29This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”Daniel 5:18As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor.Job 5:6For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

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