Jeremiah 12:1

New King James Version

Righteous are You, O Lord, when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously?

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it 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 are left as a remnant, as it is this day. Here we are before You, in our guilt, though no one can stand before You because of this!”

Nehemiah 9:33

However You are just in all that has befallen us; For You have dealt faithfully, But we have done wickedly.

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers prosper, And those who provoke God are secure— In what God provides by His hand.

Job 13:3

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

Job 24:12

The dying groan in the city, And the souls of the wounded cry out; Yet God does not charge them with wrong.

Job 24:23

He gives them security, and they rely on it; Yet His eyes are on their ways.

Job 8:17

His roots wrap around the rock heap, And look for a place in the stones.

Psalm 116:5

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

Psalm 119:137

Righteous are You, O Lord, And upright are Your judgments.

Psalm 119:75

I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are right, And that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

Psalm 145:17

The Lord is righteous in all His ways, Gracious in all His works.

Psalm 37:1

Do not fret because of evildoers, Nor be envious of the workers of iniquity.

Psalm 37:35

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

Psalm 51:4

Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight— That You may be found just when You speak, And blameless when You judge.

Psalm 51:6

Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.

Psalm 92:7

When the wicked spring up like grass, And when all the workers of iniquity flourish, It is that they may be destroyed forever.

Proverbs 1:32

For the turning away of the simple will slay them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them;

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is a vanity which occurs on earth, that there are just men to 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

“Present your case,” says the Lord. “Bring forth your strong reasons,” says the King of Jacob.

Isaiah 48:8

Surely you did not hear, Surely you did not know; Surely from long ago 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, You who judge righteously, Testing the mind and the heart, Let me see Your vengeance on them, For to You I have revealed my cause.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even your brothers, the house of your father, Even they have dealt treacherously with you; Yes, they have called a multitude after you. Do not believe them, Even though they speak smooth 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, ‘Return to Me.’ But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

Jeremiah 32:16

“Now when I had delivered the purchase deed 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 with Me,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh, that I had in the wilderness A lodging place for travelers; 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 rebelled against His commandment. Hear now, all peoples, 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 fair.’ Hear now, O house of Israel, is it not My way which is fair, and your ways which are not fair?

Daniel 9:14

Therefore the Lord has kept the disaster in mind, and brought it upon us; for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works which He does, though we have not obeyed His voice.

Daniel 9:7

O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.

Hosea 6:7

“But like men they transgressed the covenant; There they dealt treacherously with Me.

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is powerless, And justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; Therefore perverse judgment proceeds.

Zephaniah 3:5

The Lord is righteous in her midst, He will do no unrighteousness. Every morning He brings His justice 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, “In what way have we wearied Him?” In that you say, “Everyone who does evil Is good in the sight of the Lord, And He delights in them,” Or, “Where is the God of justice?”

Malachi 3:15

So now we call the proud blessed, For those who do wickedness are raised up; They even tempt God and go free.’ ”

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.