Jeremiah 12:1

New Living Translation

Lord, you always give me justice when I bring a case before you. So let me bring you this complaint: Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why are evil people so happy?

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Surely you wouldn’t do such a thing, destroying the righteous along with the wicked. Why, you would be treating the righteous and the wicked exactly the same! Surely you wouldn’t do that! Should not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”

Ezra 9:15

O Lord, God of Israel, you are just. We come before you in our guilt as nothing but an escaped remnant, though in such a condition none of us can stand in your presence.”

Nehemiah 9:33

Every time you punished us you were being just. We have sinned greatly, and you gave us only what we deserved.

Job 12:6

But robbers are left in peace, and those who provoke God live in safety— though God keeps them in his power.

Job 13:3

As for me, I would speak directly to the Almighty. I want to argue my case with God himself.

Job 24:12

The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the wounded cry for help, yet God ignores their moaning.

Job 24:23

They may be allowed to live in security, but God is always watching them.

Job 8:17

Its roots grow down through a pile of stones; it takes hold on a bed of rocks.

Psalm 116:5

How kind the Lord is! How good he is! So merciful, this God of ours!

Psalm 119:137

O Lord, you are righteous, and your regulations are fair.

Psalm 119:75

I know, O Lord, that your regulations are fair; you disciplined me because I needed it.

Psalm 145:17

The Lord is righteous in everything he does; he is filled with kindness.

Psalm 37:1

Don’t worry about the wicked or envy those who do wrong.

Psalm 37:35

I have seen wicked and ruthless people flourishing like a tree in its native soil.

Psalm 51:4

Against you, and you alone, have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. You will be proved right in what you say, and your judgment against me is just.

Psalm 51:6

But you desire honesty from the womb, teaching me wisdom even there.

Psalm 92:7

Though the wicked sprout like weeds and evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Proverbs 1:32

For simpletons turn away from me—to death. Fools are destroyed by their own complacency.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

And this is not all that is meaningless in our world. In this life, good people are often treated as though they were wicked, and wicked people are often treated as though they were good. This is so meaningless!

Isaiah 41:21

“Present the case for your idols,” says the Lord. “Let them show what they can do,” says the King of Israel.

Isaiah 48:8

“Yes, I will tell you of things that are entirely new, things you never heard of before. For I know so well what traitors you are. You have been rebels from birth.

Jeremiah 11:20

O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, you make righteous judgments, and you examine the deepest thoughts and secrets. Let me see your vengeance against them, for I have committed my cause to you.

Jeremiah 12:6

Even your brothers, members of your own family, have turned against you. They plot and raise complaints against you. Do not trust them, no matter how pleasantly they speak.

Jeremiah 3:20

But you have been unfaithful to me, you people of Israel! You have been like a faithless wife who leaves her husband. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Jeremiah 3:7

I thought, ‘After she has done all this, she will return to me.’ But she did not return, and her faithless sister Judah saw this.

Jeremiah 32:16

Then after I had given the papers to Baruch, I prayed to the Lord:

Jeremiah 5:11

The people of Israel and Judah are full of treachery against me,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh, that I could go away and forget my people and live in a travelers’ shack in the desert. For they are all adulterers— a pack of treacherous liars.

Lamentations 1:18

“The Lord is right,” Jerusalem says, “for I rebelled against him. Listen, people everywhere; look upon my anguish and despair, for my sons and daughters have been taken captive to distant lands.

Ezekiel 18:25

“Yet you say, ‘The Lord isn’t doing what’s right!’ Listen to me, O people of Israel. Am I the one not doing what’s right, or is it you?

Daniel 9:14

Therefore, the Lord has brought upon us the disaster he prepared. The Lord our God was right to do all of these things, for we did not obey him.

Daniel 9:7

“Lord, you are in the right; but as you see, our faces are covered with shame. This is true of all of us, including the people of Judah and Jerusalem and all Israel, scattered near and far, wherever you have driven us because of our disloyalty to you.

Hosea 6:7

But like Adam, you broke my covenant and betrayed my trust.

Habakkuk 1:4

The law has become paralyzed, and there is no justice in the courts. The wicked far outnumber the righteous, so that justice has become perverted.

Zephaniah 3:5

But the Lord is still there in the city, and he does no wrong. Day by day he hands down justice, and he does not fail. But the wicked know no shame.

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the Lord with your words. “How have we wearied him?” you ask. You have wearied him by saying that all who do evil are good in the Lord’s sight, and he is pleased with them. You have wearied him by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”

Malachi 3:15

From now on we will call the arrogant blessed. For those who do evil get rich, and those who dare God to punish them suffer no harm.’”

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the Rock; his deeds are perfect. Everything he does is just and fair. He is a faithful God who does no wrong; how just and upright he is!