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Jeremiah 12:1

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

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

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:

Fret not thyself because of evildoers, Neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, 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 whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

The tabernacles of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

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

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: That thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

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

The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

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

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

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

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

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

Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

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

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

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

Righteous art thou, O LORD, And upright are thy judgments.

I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, And that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

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.

That be far from thee 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 thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:

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

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

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

Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.

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.

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

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.

Yet ye 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?

His roots are wrapped about the heap, And seeth the place of stones.

Men groan from out of the city, And the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God layeth not folly to them.

Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; Yet his eyes are upon their ways.

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: And in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.

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




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