Jeremiah 12:1

God's Word

O Lord, even if I would argue my case with you, you would always be right. Yet, I want to talk to you about your justice. Why do wicked people succeed? Why do treacherous people have peace and quiet?

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

It would be unthinkable for you to do such a thing, to treat the innocent and the guilty alike and to kill the innocent with the guilty. That would be unthinkable! Won’t the judge of the whole earth do what is fair?”

Ezra 9:15

Lord God of Israel, because you are fair, a few of us continue to remain as survivors. Look at us. All of us are guilty. None of us can stand in your presence because of this.”

Nehemiah 9:33

But you were fair about everything that has happened to us. You have been faithful, but we have been wicked.

Job 12:6

⌞But⌟ robbers’ tents are prosperous, and there is security for those who provoke God, for those whose god is their power.

Job 13:3

However, I want to speak to the Almighty, and I wish to argue my case in front of God.

Job 24:12

Those dying in the city groan. Wounded people cry for help, but God pays no attention to their prayers.

Job 24:23

⌞God⌟ may let them feel confident and self-reliant, but his eyes are on their ways.

Job 8:17

Its roots weave through a pile of stones. They cling to a stone house.

Psalm 116:5

The Lord is merciful and righteous. Our God is compassionate.

Psalm 119:137

You are righteous, O Lord, and your regulations are fair.

Psalm 119:75

I know that your regulations are fair, O Lord, and that you were right to make me suffer.

Psalm 145:17

The Lord is fair in all his ways and faithful in everything he does.

Psalm 37:1

Do not be preoccupied with evildoers. Do not envy those who do wicked things.

Psalm 37:35

I have seen a wicked person ⌞acting like⌟ a tyrant, spreading himself out like a large cedar tree.

Psalm 51:4

I have sinned against you, especially you. I have done what you consider evil. So you hand down justice when you speak, and you are blameless when you judge.

Psalm 51:6

Yet, you desire truth and sincerity. Deep down inside me you teach me wisdom.

Psalm 92:7

that wicked people sprout like grass and all troublemakers blossom ⌞like flowers⌟, only to be destroyed forever.

Proverbs 1:32

“Gullible people kill themselves because of their turning away. Fools destroy themselves because of their indifference.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is something being done on earth that is pointless. Righteous people suffer for what the wicked do, and wicked people get what the righteous deserve. I say that even this is pointless.

Isaiah 41:21

“Present your case,” says the Lord. “Bring forward your best arguments,” says Jacob’s king.

Isaiah 48:8

You have never heard about them. You have never known about them. Your ears have never been open to hear them before. I know that you’ve acted very treacherously and that you have been called a rebel since you were born.

Jeremiah 11:20

O Lord of Armies, you judge fairly and test motives and thoughts. I want to see you take revenge on them, because I’ve brought my case to you.

Jeremiah 12:6

Even your relatives and members of your father’s household betray you. They have also formed a mob to find you. Don’t trust them when they say good things about you.

Jeremiah 3:20

But like a wife who betrays her husband, so you, nation of Israel, betrayed me,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:7

I thought that after she had done all this that she would come back to me. But she didn’t come back, and her treacherous sister Judah saw her.

Jeremiah 32:16

“After I had given the copies to Baruch, son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord. I prayed,

Jeremiah 5:11

The nations of Israel and Judah are unfaithful to me,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:2

I wish I had a place to stay in the desert. I would abandon my people and go away from them. They are all adulterers, a mob of traitors.

Lamentations 1:18

“The Lord is right in what he did, because I rebelled against his word. Please listen, all you people, and look at my pain. My young women and young men have gone into captivity.

Ezekiel 18:25

“But you say, ‘The Lord’s way is unfair.’ Listen, nation of Israel, isn’t my way fair? Isn’t it your ways that are unfair?

Daniel 9:14

So you were prepared to bring this disaster on us. Lord our God, you are righteous in everything you do. But we never listened to you.

Daniel 9:7

You, Lord, are righteous. But we—the men of Judah, the citizens of Jerusalem, and all the Israelites whom you scattered in countries near and far—are still ashamed because we have been unfaithful to you.

Hosea 6:7

“Like Adam, you rejected the promise. You were unfaithful to me.

Habakkuk 1:4

That is why your teaching is numbed, and justice is never carried out. Wicked people surround righteous people so that when justice is carried out, it’s perverted.

Zephaniah 3:5

The righteous Lord is in that city. He does no wrong. He brings his judgment to light every morning. He does not fail. But those who are perverted are shameless.

Malachi 2:17

You have tried the patience of the Lord with your words. But you ask, “How have we tried his patience?” When you say, “Everyone who does evil is considered good by the Lord. He is pleased with them,” or “Where is the God of justice?”

Malachi 3:15

So now we call arrogant people blessed. Not only are evildoers encouraged, they even test God and get away with it.’ ”

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is a rock. What he does is perfect. All his ways are fair. He is a faithful God, who does no wrong. He is honorable and reliable.