For hardship does not spring from the soil,
    nor does trouble sprout from the ground.(A)

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I form the light and create darkness,(A)
    I bring prosperity and create disaster;(B)
    I, the Lord, do all these things.

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15 See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God(A) and that no bitter root(B) grows up to cause trouble and defile many.

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When a trumpet(A) sounds in a city,
    do not the people tremble?
When disaster(B) comes to a city,
    has not the Lord caused it?(C)

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They make many promises,
    take false oaths(A)
    and make agreements;(B)
therefore lawsuits spring up
    like poisonous weeds(C) in a plowed field.

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

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We are consumed by your anger
    and terrified by your indignation.

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29 But if he remains silent,(A) who can condemn him?(B)
    If he hides his face,(C) who can see him?
Yet he is over individual and nation alike,(D)

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but keep watching it. If it goes up to its own territory, toward Beth Shemesh,(A) then the Lord has brought this great disaster on us. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us but that it happened to us by chance.”

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27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
    lest the adversary misunderstand(A)
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
    the Lord has not done all this.’”(B)

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