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36 When a man is thwarted in his appeal,
    does the Lord condone[a] it?

37 Who can command, and it happens,
    without the Lord having ordered it?
38 Do not both good and evil things proceed
    from the mouth of the Most High?

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:36 Lit. see

36 to deprive them of justice—
    would not the Lord see such things?(A)

37 Who can speak and have it happen
    if the Lord has not decreed it?(B)
38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
    that both calamities and good things come?(C)

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