Jeremiah 12:1 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ Is my inheritance to me as a speckled bird? Is it as a bird died throughout? come ye, assemble yourselves, all the beasts of the earth, make haste to devour.

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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?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper? Why is it well with all them that transgress and do wickedly?

Jeremiah 12:1 Cross References

Genesis 18:25

5 Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked, this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.

Ezra 9:15

So Esdras arose, and made the chiefs of the priests and of the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word, and they swore.

Nehemiah 9:33

8 and because of all this we ourselves make a covenant, and write it, and our princes, our Levites, and our priests sign it.

Job 12:6

1 Doth not the ear discern words, and the palate of him that eateth, the taste?

Job 13:3

Do you accept his person, and do you endeavour to judge for God?

Job 24:12

7 If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.

Job 24:23

Is there any numbering of his soldiers? and upon whom shall not his light arise?

Job 8:17

2 They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.

Psalm 116:5

2 What shall I render to the Lord, for all the things he hath rendered unto me?

Psalm 119:137

44 Thy testimonies are justice for ever: give me understanding, and I shall live.

Psalm 119:75

2 My eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort me?

Psalm 145:17

in the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.

Psalm 37:1

Cease from anger, and leave rage; have no emulation to do evil.

Psalm 37:35

For thy arrows are fastened in me : and thy hand hath been strong upon me.

Psalm 51:4

1 Cast me not away from thy face; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

Psalm 51:6

3 I will teach the unjust thy ways: and the wicked shall be converted to thee.

Psalm 92:7

4 They shall still increase in a fruitful old age: and shall be well treated,

Proverbs 1:32

Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is no man that liveth always, or that hopeth for this: a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Isaiah 41:21

9 Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.

Isaiah 48:8

6 Come ye near unto me, and hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning: from the time before it was done, I was there, and now the Lord God hath sent me, and his spirit.

Jeremiah 11:20

If thou hast wearied with running with footmen, how canst thou contend with horses? and if thou hast been secure in a land of peace, what wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan?

Jeremiah 12:6

4 Thus saith the Lord against all my wicked neighbors, that touch the inheritance that I have shared out to my people Israel: Behold I will pluck them out of their land, and I will pluck the house of Juda out of the midst of them.

Jeremiah 3:20

For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda and Jerusalem: Break up anew your fallow ground, and sow not upon thorns:

Jeremiah 3:7

5 And I will give you pastors according to my own heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and doctrine.

Jeremiah 32:16

4 Behold works are built up against the city to take it: and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans, who fight against it, by the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken, is all come to pass, as thou thyself seest.

Jeremiah 5:11

9 And if you shall say: why hath the Lord our God done all these things to us? thou shalt say to them: As you have forsaken me, and served a strange god in your own land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not your own.

Jeremiah 9:2

0 For the mountains I will take up weeping and lamentation, and for the beautiful places of the desert, mourning: because they are burnt up, for that there is not a man that passeth through them: and they have not heard the voice of the owner: from the fowl of the air to the beasts they are gone away and departed.

Lamentations 1:18

Daleth. He hath bent his bow as an enemy, he hath fixed his right hand as an adversary: and he hath killed all that was fair to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion, he hath poured out his indignation like fire.

Ezekiel 18:25

Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Daniel 9:14

2 And he instructed me, and spoke to me, and said: O Daniel, I am now come forth to teach thee, and that thou mightest understand.

Daniel 9:7

5 And now, O Lord our God, who hast brought forth thy people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and hast made thee a name as at this day: we have sinned, we have committed iniquity,

Hosea 6:7

They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened.

Habakkuk 1:4

2 Wast thou not from the beginning, O Lord my God, my holy one, and we shall not die? Lord, thou hast appointed him for judgment: and made him strong for correction.

Zephaniah 3:5

3 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies, nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed, and shall lie down, and there shall be none to make them afraid.

Malachi 2:17

Shall a man afflict God? for you afflict me. And you have said: Wherein do we afflict thee? in tithes and in firstfruits.

Malachi 3:15

Behold I will send you Elias the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 32:4

But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.