Jeremiah 12:1

New American Bible - revised edition

You would be in the right, O Lord, if I should dispute with you; even so, I must lay out the case against you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper, why do all the treacherous live in contentment?

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from you to do such a thing, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike! Far be it from you! Should not the judge of all the world do what is just?”

Ezra 9:15

Lord, God of Israel, you are just; yet we have been spared, the remnant we are today. Here we are before you in our sins. Because of all this, we can no longer stand in your presence.”

Nehemiah 9:33

In all that has come upon us you have been just, for you kept faith while we have done evil.

Job 12:6

Yet the tents of robbers are prosperous, and those who provoke God are secure, whom God has in his power.

Job 13:3

But I would speak with the Almighty; I want to argue with God.

Job 24:12

In the city the dying groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out. Yet God does not treat it as a disgrace!

Job 24:23

he gives safety and support, and his eyes are on their ways.

Job 8:17

About a heap of stones his roots are entwined; among the rocks he takes hold.

Psalm 116:5

Gracious is the Lord and righteous; yes, our God is merciful.

Psalm 119:137

You are righteous, Lord, and just are your judgments.

Psalm 119:75

I know, Lord, that your judgments are righteous; though you afflict me, you are faithful.

Psalm 145:17

The Lord is just in all his ways, merciful in all his works.

Psalm 37:1

Of David. Do not be provoked by evildoers; do not envy those who do wrong.

Psalm 37:35

I have seen a ruthless scoundrel, spreading out like a green cedar.

Psalm 51:4

Thoroughly wash away my guilt; and from my sin cleanse me.

Psalm 51:6

Against you, you alone have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your eyes So that you are just in your word, and without reproach in your judgment.

Psalm 92:7

A senseless person cannot know this; a fool cannot comprehend.

Proverbs 1:32

For the straying of the naive kills them, the smugness of fools destroys them.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

This is a vanity that occurs on earth: There are those who are just but are treated as though they had done evil, and those who are wicked but are treated as though they had done justly. This, too, I say is vanity.

Isaiah 41:21

Present your case, says the Lord; bring forward your arguments, says the King of Jacob.

Isaiah 48:8

You never heard, you never knew, they never reached your ears beforehand. Yes, I know you are utterly treacherous, a rebel you were named from the womb.

Jeremiah 11:20

But, you, Lord of hosts, just Judge, searcher of mind and heart, Let me witness the vengeance you take on them, for to you I have entrusted my cause!

Jeremiah 12:6

Your kindred and your father’s house, even they betray you; they have recruited a force against you. Do not believe them, even when they speak fair words to you.

Jeremiah 3:20

But like a woman faithless to her lover, thus have you been faithless to me, house of Israel—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:7

And I thought: After she has done all this, she will return to me. But she did not return. Then, even though that traitor her sister Judah, saw

Jeremiah 32:16

After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch, son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord:

Jeremiah 5:11

For they have openly rebelled against me, both the house of Israel and the house of Judah— oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:2

They ready their tongues like a drawn bow; with lying, and not with truth, they are powerful in the land. They go from evil to evil, and me they do not know—oracle of the Lord.

Lamentations 1:18

“The Lord is in the right; I had defied his command. Listen, all you peoples, and see my pain: My young women and young men have gone into captivity.

Ezekiel 18:25

You say, “The Lord’s way is not fair!” Hear now, house of Israel: Is it my way that is unfair? Are not your ways unfair?

Daniel 9:14

so the Lord kept watch over the evil and brought it upon us. The Lord, our God, is just in all that he has done: we did not listen to his voice.

Daniel 9:7

Justice, O Lord, is on your side; we are shamefaced even to this day: the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and all Israel, near and far, in all the lands to which you have scattered them because of their treachery toward you.

Hosea 6:7

But they, at Adam, violated the covenant; there they betrayed me.

Habakkuk 1:4

This is why the law is numb and justice never comes, For the wicked surround the just; this is why justice comes forth perverted.

Zephaniah 3:5

But the Lord in its midst is just, doing no wrong; Morning after morning rendering judgment unfailingly, at dawn; the wicked, however, know no shame.

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the Lord with your words, yet you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “All evildoers are good in the sight of the Lord, And he is pleased with them,” or “Where is the just God?”

Malachi 3:15

But we call the arrogant blessed; for evildoers not only prosper but even test God and escape.”

Deuteronomy 32:4

The Rock—how faultless are his deeds, how right all his ways! A faithful God, without deceit, just and upright is he!