Jeremiah 12:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹ You will be righteous, Lord, even if I bring a case against you. Yet I wish to contend with you: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the treacherous live at ease?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ UNCOMPROMISINGLY RIGHTEOUS and rigidly just are You, O Lord, when I complain against and contend with You. Yet let me plead and reason the case with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all they at ease and thriving who deal very treacherously and deceitfully?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?

Common English Bible

¹ If I took you to court, LORD, you would win. But I still have questions about your justice. Why do guilty persons enjoy success? Why are evildoers so happy?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Certainly, O Lord, you are just. But if I may contend with you, while still speaking what is just to you: Why does the way of the impious prosper? Why is it well with all those who transgress and act unfairly?

Jeremiah 12:1 Cross References

Genesis 18:25

You could not possibly do such a thing: to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. You could not possibly do that! Won’t the Judge of the whole earth do what is just? ’

Ezra 9:15

Lord God of Israel, you are righteous, for we survive as a remnant  today. Here we are before you with our guilt, though no one can stand in your presence because of this.

Nehemiah 9:33

You are righteous concerning all that has happened to us, because you have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are safe, and those who trouble God are secure; God holds them in his hands.  ,

Job 13:3

Yet I prefer to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.

Job 24:12

From the city, men   groan; the mortally wounded cry for help, yet God pays no attention to this crime.

Job 24:23

He gives them a sense of security, so they can rely on it, but his eyes  watch over their ways.

Job 8:17

His roots are intertwined around a pile of rocks. He looks for a home among the stones.

Proverbs 1:32

For the apostasy of the inexperienced will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is a futility that is done on the earth: there are righteous people who get what the actions of the wicked deserve,  and there are wicked people who get what the actions of the righteous deserve.  I say that this too is futile.

Isaiah 41:21

‘Submit your case,’ says the  Lord. ‘Present your arguments,’ says Jacob’s King.

Isaiah 48:8

You have never heard; you have never known; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew that you were very treacherous, and were known as a rebel from birth.

Jeremiah 11:20

But, Lord of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests  heart  and mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have presented my case to you.

Jeremiah 12:6

Even your brothers #– #your own father’s family – even they were treacherous to you; even they have cried out loudly after you. Do not have confidence in them, though they speak well of you.

Jeremiah 3:20

However, as a woman may betray her lover, so you have betrayed  me, house of Israel. This is the  Lord’s declaration.

Jeremiah 3:7

I thought, “After she has done all these things, she will return to me.” But she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah  saw it.

Jeremiah 32:16

‘After I had given the purchase agreement to Baruch, son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord:

Jeremiah 5:11

They, the house of Israel and the house of Judah, have dealt very treacherously with me. This is the  Lord’s declaration.

Jeremiah 9:2

If only I had a traveller’s lodging place in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a solemn assembly of treacherous people.

Lamentations 1:18

The Lord is just, for I have rebelled against his command. Listen, all you people; look at my pain. My young women and young men have gone into captivity.

Ezekiel 18:25

‘But you say, “The Lord’s way isn’t fair.”  Now listen, house of Israel: Is it my way that is unfair? Instead, isn’t it your ways that are unfair?

Daniel 9:14

So the Lord kept the disaster in mind and brought it on us, for the Lord our God is righteous in all he has done. But we have not obeyed him.

Daniel 9:7

Lord, righteousness belongs to you,  but this day public shame belongs to us: the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and all Israel #– #those who are near and those who are far, in all the countries where you have banished them because of the disloyalty they have shown towards you.

Hosea 6:7

But they, like Adam,  have violated the covenant; there they have betrayed me.

Habakkuk 1:4

This is why the law is ineffective and justice never emerges. For the wicked restrict  the righteous; therefore, justice  comes out perverted.

Zephaniah 3:5

The righteous Lord is in her; he does no wrong. He applies his justice morning by morning; he does not fail at dawn, yet the one who does wrong knows no shame.

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the Lord   with your words. Yet you ask, ‘How have we wearied him? ’ When you say, ‘Everyone who does what is evil is good in the Lord’s sight, and he is delighted with them,  or else where is the God of justice? ’

Malachi 3:15

So now we consider the arrogant  to be fortunate.  Not only do those who commit wickedness prosper, they even test God  and escape.’

Deuteronomy 32:4

The Rock   #– #his work is perfect; all his ways are just. A faithful God,  without bias, he is righteous and true.