Jeremiah 12:1

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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?

Cross References

Malachi 3:15

Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they that work wickedness are built up, and they have tempted God and are preserved.

Psalm 37:1

A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the sabbath.

Job 12:6

The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands.

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is torn in pieces, and judgment cometh not to the end: because the wicked prevaileth against the just, therefore wrong judgment goeth forth.

Psalm 51:4

All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.

Zephaniah 3:5

The just Lord is in the midst thereof, he will not do iniquity: in the morning, in the morning he will bring his judgment to light, and it shall not be hid: but the wicked man hath not known shame.

Jeremiah 11:20

But thou, O Lord of Sabaoth, who judgest justly and triest the reins and hearts, let me see thy revenge on them: for to thee I have revealed my cause.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even thy brethren and the house of thy father, even they have fought against thee, and have cried after thee with full voice. Believe them not when they speak good things to thee.

Jeremiah 5:11

For the house of Israel and the house of Juda have greatly transgressed against me, saith the Lord.

Job 13:3

But yet I will speak to the Almighty: and I desire to reason with God.

Ezra 9:15

O Lord God of Israel, thou art just: for we remain yet to be saved as at this day. Behold, we are before thee in our sin: for there can be no standing before thee in this matter.

Hosea 6:7

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

Isaiah 48:8

Thou hast neither heard nor known: neither was thy ear opened of old. For I know that transgressing thou wilt transgress: and I have called thee a transgressor from the womb.

Isaiah 41:21

Bring your cause near, saith the Lord: bring hither, if you have any thing to allege, saith the King of Jacob.

Proverbs 1:32

The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Deuteronomy 32:4

The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity; he is just and right.

Genesis 18:25

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.

Nehemiah 9:33

And thou art just in all things that have come upon us: because thou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is also another vanity, which is done upon the earth. There are just men to whom evils happen, as though they had done the works of the wicked: and there are wicked men, who are as secure, as though they had the deeds of the just: but this also I judge most vain.

Jeremiah 3:7

And when she had done all these things, I said: Return to me. And she did not return. And her treacherous sister Juda saw,

Jeremiah 3:20

But as a woman that despiseth her lover, so hath the house of Israel despised me, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:2

Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people and depart from them, because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors?

Jeremiah 32:16

And after I had delivered the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neri, I prayed to the Lord, saying:

Lamentations 1:18

Sade. The Lord is just, for I have provoked his mouth to wrath: hear, I pray you, all ye people, and see my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

Ezekiel 18:25

And you have said: The way of the Lord is not right. Hear ye, therefore, O house of Israel: Is it my way that is not right, and are not rather your ways perverse?

Job 8:17

His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones: and among the stones he shall abide.

Job 24:12

Out of the cities they have made men to groan. And the soul of the wounded hath cried out: and God doth not suffer it to pass unrevenged.

Job 24:23

God hath given him place for penance: and he abuseth it unto pride. But his eyes are upon his ways.

Psalm 51:6

Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue.

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the Lord with your words, and you said: Wherein have we wearied him? In that you say: Every one that doth evil, is good in the sight of the Lord, and such please him: or surely where is the God of judgment?