Lamentations 3:38
New Living Translation
38 Does not the Most High
send both calamity and good?
Isaiah 45:7
New Living Translation
7 I create the light and make the darkness.
I send good times and bad times.
I, the Lord, am the one who does these things.
Amos 3:6
New Living Translation
6 When the ram’s horn blows a warning,
shouldn’t the people be alarmed?
Does disaster come to a city
unless the Lord has planned it?
Jeremiah 32:42
New Living Translation
42 “This is what the Lord says: Just as I have brought all these calamities on them, so I will do all the good I have promised them.
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Job 2:10
New Living Translation
10 But Job replied, “You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong.
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Psalm 75:7
New Living Translation
7 It is God alone who judges;
he decides who will rise and who will fall.
Proverbs 29:26
New Living Translation
26 Many seek the ruler’s favor,
but justice comes from the Lord.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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