Jeremiah 12:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?

Ezra 9:15

O Lord God of Israel, righteousness is yours; we are only a small band which has been kept from death, as at this day: see, we are before you in our sin; for no one may keep his place before you because of this.

Nehemiah 9:33

But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:

Job 12:6

There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.

Job 13:3

But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God.

Job 24:12

From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.

Job 24:23

He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.

Job 8:17

His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them.

Psalm 116:5

The Lord is full of grace and righteousness; truly, he is a God of mercy.

Psalm 119:137

TZADE O Lord, great is your righteousness, and upright are your decisions.

Psalm 119:75

I have seen, O Lord, that your decisions are right, and that in unchanging faith you have sent trouble on me.

Psalm 145:17

The Lord is upright in all his ways, and kind in all his works.

Psalm 37:1

Of David. Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil.

Psalm 37:35

I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.

Psalm 51:4

Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

Psalm 51:6

Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.

Psalm 92:7

When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

Proverbs 1:32

For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.

Isaiah 41:21

Put forward your cause, says the Lord; let your strong argument come out, says the King of Jacob.

Isaiah 48:8

Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.

Jeremiah 11:20

But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even your brothers, your father's family, even they have been untrue to you, crying loudly after you: have no faith in them, though they say fair words to you.

Jeremiah 3:20

Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:7

And I said, After she has done all these things she will come back to me; but she did not. And her false sister Judah saw it.

Jeremiah 32:16

Now after I had given the paper to Baruch, the son of Neriah, I made my prayer to the Lord, saying,

Jeremiah 5:11

For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:2

If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.

Lamentations 1:18

The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.

Ezekiel 18:25

But you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Give ear, now, O children of Israel; is my way not equal? are not your ways unequal?

Daniel 9:14

So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.

Daniel 9:7

O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.

Hosea 6:7

But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.

Habakkuk 1:4

For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.

Zephaniah 3:5

The Lord in her is upright; he will not do evil; every morning he lets his righteousness be seen, he is unchanging; but the evil-doer has no sense of shame.

Malachi 2:17

You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?

Malachi 3:15

And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.