Jeremiah 12:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹ Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead 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?

More versions

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

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Ezra 9:15

O LORD, the God of Israel, thou art righteous; for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our guiltiness; for none can stand before thee because of this.

Nehemiah 9:33

Howbeit thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly:

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

Job 13:3

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.

Job 24:12

From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God imputeth it not for folly

Job 24:23

God giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon; And his eyes are upon their ways.

Job 8:17

His roots are wrapped about the heap, He beholdeth the place of stones.

Psalm 116:5

Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Yea, our God is merciful.

Psalm 119:137

Righteous art thou, O LORD, And upright are thy judgements.

Psalm 119:75

I know, O LORD, that thy judgements are righteous, And that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.

Psalm 145:17

The LORD is righteous in all his ways, And gracious in all his works.

Psalm 37:1

Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, Neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness.

Psalm 37:35

I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

Psalm 51:4

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in thy sight: That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, And be clear when thou judgest.

Psalm 51:6

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: And in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Psalm 92:7

When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

Proverbs 1:32

For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be righteous men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

Isaiah 41:21

Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

Isaiah 48:8

Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from of old thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou didst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

Jeremiah 11:20

But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; even they have cried aloud after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.

Jeremiah 3:20

Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 3:7

And I said after she had done all these things, She will return unto me; but she returned not: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

Jeremiah 32:16

Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,

Jeremiah 5:11

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Lamentations 1:18

The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

Ezekiel 18:25

Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel: Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?

Daniel 9:14

Therefore hath the LORD watched over the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth, and we have not obeyed his voice.

Daniel 9:7

O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

Hosea 6:7

But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is slacked, and judgement doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore judgement goeth forth perverted.

Zephaniah 3:5

The LORD in the midst of her is righteous; he will not do iniquity; every morning doth he bring his judgement to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

Malachi 2:17

Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or where is the God of judgement?

Malachi 3:15

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and are delivered.

Deuteronomy 32:4

The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are judgement: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.