Jeremiah 12:1

Lighthouse Bible 2006

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 those happy who deal very treacherously?

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

That would be far from you to do in this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that would 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 delivered, 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

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

Job 12:6

The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure; into whose hand God provides abundantly.

Job 13:3

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

Job 24:12

Men from the city groan, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God does not charge them with folly.

Job 24:23

Though it be granted him to be in safety, which sustains him; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

Job 8:17

His roots are wrapped around the heap, and he sees the place of stones.

Psalm 116:5

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

Psalm 119:137

TZADDI. 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

​Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious against 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 up as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

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 be just men, to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

Isaiah 41:21

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

Isaiah 48:8

Yea, you did not hear; yea, you did not know; yea, from the time that 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 examines the thoughts and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for unto you have I revealed my cause.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; yea, they have called a multitude after you: do not believe them, though they speak fair words to 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 to me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

Jeremiah 32:16

Now when I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to 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 traveling 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 just. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way just? are not your ways unjust?

Daniel 9:14

Therefore has the LORD watched over the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he does: for we did not obey his voice.

Daniel 9:7

O Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us shame of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries to which you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

Hosea 6:7

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

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is weakened, and justice never goes forth: for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceeds.

Zephaniah 3:5

The just LORD is in the midst of her; he will not do iniquity: every morning he brings his judgment to light, he never fails; 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, those who work wickedness are established; yea, those who tempt 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.