Jeremiah 12:1

American King James Version (1999)

Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

That be far from you to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from you: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Ezra 9:15

O LORD God of Israel, you are righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before you in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before you because of this.

Nehemiah 9:33

However, you are just in all that is brought on us; for you have done right, but we have done wickedly:

Job 12:6

The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God brings abundantly.

Job 13:3

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

Job 24:12

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God lays not folly to them.

Job 24:23

Though it be given him to be in safety, where on he rests; yet his eyes are on their ways.

Job 8:17

His roots are wrapped about the heap, and sees the place of stones.

Psalm 116:5

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

Psalm 119:137

Righteous are you, O LORD, and upright are your judgments.

Psalm 119:75

I know, O LORD, that your judgments are right, and that you in faithfulness have afflicted me.

Psalm 145:17

The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

Psalm 37:1

Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious against the workers of iniquity.

Psalm 37:35

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

Psalm 51:4

Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight: that you might be justified when you speak, and be clear when you judge.

Psalm 51:6

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part you shall 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 turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

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

Isaiah 41:21

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

Isaiah 48:8

Yes, you heard not; yes, you knew not; yes, from that time that your ear was not opened: for I knew that you would deal very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

Jeremiah 11:20

But, O LORD of hosts, that judge righteously, that try the reins and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for to you have I revealed my cause.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; yes, they have called a multitude after you: believe them not, though they speak fair words to you.

Jeremiah 3:20

Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, said the LORD.

Jeremiah 3:7

And I said after she had done all these things, Turn you to me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

Jeremiah 32:16

Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD, saying,

Jeremiah 5:11

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, said 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 people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

Ezekiel 18:25

Yet you 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 has the LORD watched on the evil, and brought it on us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he does: for we obeyed not his voice.

Daniel 9:7

O LORD, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

Hosea 6:7

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

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment does never go forth: for the wicked does compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceeds.

Zephaniah 3:5

The just LORD is in the middle thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning does he bring his judgment to light, he fails not; but the unjust knows no shame.

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, Wherein have we wearied him? When you say, Every one that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

Malachi 3:15

And now we call the proud happy; yes, they that work wickedness are set up; yes, they that tempt God are even delivered.

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.