Lamentations 3:37
Good News Translation
The will of the Lord alone is always carried out.

New Revised Standard Version
Who can command and have it done, if the Lord has not ordained it?

Contemporary English Version
No one can do anything without the Lord's approval.

New American Bible
Who speaks so that it comes to pass, unless the Lord commands it?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?

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Psalm 33:9-11 For he spoke and they were made: he commanded and they were created. . . .

Proverbs 16:9 The heart of man disposeth his way: but the Lord must direct his steps.

Proverbs 19:21 There are many thoughts in the heart of a man: but the will of the Lord shall stand firm.

Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom, there is no prudence, there is no counsel against the Lord.

Isaiah 46:10 Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me:

Daniel 4:35 0

Romans 9:15 For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. And I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy.

Ephesians 1:11 In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will.

James 4:13-15 But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year and will traffic and make our gain. . . .

Context
God's Justice
37Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?38Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?…
Cross References
Psalm 33:9
For he spoke and they were made: he commanded and they were created.

Jeremiah 23:32
Behold I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith the Lord: and tell them, and cause my people to err by their lying, and by their wonders: when I sent them not, nor commanded them, who have not profited this people at all, saith the Lord.

Lamentations 3:36
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