Lamentations 3:37-39

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³⁷Who can command and have it done,
    if the Lord has not ordained it?
³⁸Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
    that good and bad come?
³⁹Why should any who draw breath complain
    about the punishment of their sins?

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