For affliction does not come from the dust,
    nor does trouble sprout from the ground,

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I form light and create darkness;
    I make well-being and (A)create calamity;
    I am the Lord, who does all these things.

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15 See to it that no one (A)fails to obtain the grace of God; that no (B)“root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;

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(A)Is a trumpet blown in a city,
    and the people are not afraid?
(B)Does disaster come to a city,
    unless the Lord has done it?

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They utter (A)mere words;
    with empty[a] oaths they make covenants;
so (B)judgment springs up like poisonous weeds
    (C)in the furrows of the field.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:4 Or vain (see Exodus 20:7)

38 (A)Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
    that good and bad come?

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For we are brought to an end by your anger;
    by your wrath we are dismayed.

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29 When he is quiet, who can condemn?
    When he hides his face, who can behold him,
    whether it be a nation or a man?—

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and watch. If it goes up on the way to its own land, to (A)Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm, but if not, then we shall know that it is not (B)his hand that struck us; it happened to us by coincidence.”

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27 had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
    lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, (A)“Our hand is triumphant,
    it was not the Lord who did all this.”’

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