Jeremiah 12:1

King James 2000

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

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

Job 12:6

The tents 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 charges not folly to them.

Job 24:23

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

Job 8:17

His roots are wrapped about the stone heap, and looks for a place in the stones.

Psalm 116:5

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

Psalm 119:137

[Tsadde] 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

[A Psalm of David.] Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious of 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 blameless 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 forever:

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 upon the earth; that there are just men, unto 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 this also is vanity.

Isaiah 41:21

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

Isaiah 48:8

Yea, you heard not; yea, you knew not; yea, from of old 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, who judges righteously, who tests the mind and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for unto you have I revealed my cause.

Jeremiah 12:6

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

Jeremiah 3:20

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

Jeremiah 3:7

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

Jeremiah 32:16

Now when I had delivered the deed of purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,

Jeremiah 5:11

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

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for wayfaring men; that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are 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 have 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 upon the evil, and brought it upon 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 unto you, but unto us shame of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto 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 justice does never go forth: for the wicked does surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds.

Zephaniah 3:5

The just LORD is in her midst; he will do no wrong: 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, How 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; yea, they that work wickedness are raised up; yea, they that test God are even delivered.

Deuteronomy 32:4

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