Jeremiah 12:1

A Conservative Version

Thou are righteous, O LORD, when I contend with thee. Yet I would reason the case with thee. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those at ease who deal very treacherously?

Cross References

Malachi 3:15

And now we call the proud happy. Yea, those who work wickedness are built up. Yea, they challenge God, and escape.

Psalm 92:7

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed forever,

Psalm 37:1

Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, nor be thou envious against those who work unrighteousness.

Daniel 9:7

O LORD, righteousness belongs to thee, but to us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where tho

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure. Into whose hand God brings [abundantly].

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is slacked, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked man surrounds the righteous man, therefore justice goes forth perverted.

Psalm 51:4

Against thee, thee only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, that thou may be justified when thou speak, and may prevail (LXX/NT) when thou are criticized (LXX/NT).

Psalm 37:35

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

Zephaniah 3:5

LORD in the midst of her is righteous. He will not do iniquity. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He does not fail, but the unjust man knows no shame.

Jeremiah 11:20

But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tries the heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance on them, for to thee I have revealed my case.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even thy brothers, 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 to thee.

Jeremiah 5:11

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

Job 13:3

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

Ezra 9:15

O LORD, the God of Israel, thou are 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.

Hosea 6:7

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

Isaiah 48:8

Yea, thou heard not. Yea, thou knew not. Yea, from of old thine ear was not opened. For I knew that thou dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

Isaiah 41:21

Produce your case, says LORD. Bring forth your strong reasons, says the King of Jacob.

Proverbs 1:32

For the backsliding of the simple shall kill them, and the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.

Psalm 145:17

LORD is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.

Psalm 119:137

Thou are righteous, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.

Psalm 119:75

I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness thou have afflicted me.

Deuteronomy 32:4

The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice, a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Genesis 18:25

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay a righteous man with a wicked man, that so the righteous man should be as the wicked man. Far be it from thee. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Nehemiah 9:33

However thou are just in all that has come upon us, for thou have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly,

Psalm 116:5

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

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked, again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that

Jeremiah 3:7

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

Jeremiah 3:20

Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so ye have dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says 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 are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Jeremiah 32:16

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

Lamentations 1:18

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 have gone into captivity.

Ezekiel 18:25

Yet ye say, The way of LORD is not equitable. Hear now, O house of Israel. Is not my way equitable? Are not your ways inequitable?

Job 8:17

His roots are wrapped around the [stone] heap. He beholds the place of stones.

Job 24:12

From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded cries out. Yet God does not regard the folly.

Job 24:23

[God] gives them to be in security, and they rest in it. And his eyes are upon their ways.

Psalm 51:6

Behold, thou desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part thou will make me to know wisdom.

Daniel 9:14

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

Malachi 2:17

Ye have wearied LORD with your words. Yet ye say, How have we wearied him? In that ye say, Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of LORD, and he delights in them, or Where is the God of justice?