Jeremiah 12:1

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I complain to thee; yet I would plead my case before thee. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from thee to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from thee! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Ezra 9:15

O Lord the God of Israel, thou art just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as at this day. Behold, we are before thee in our guilt, for none can stand before thee because of this.”

Nehemiah 9:33

Yet thou hast been just in all that has come upon us, for thou hast dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly;

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.

Job 13:3

But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

Job 24:12

From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God pays no attention to their prayer.

Job 24:23

He gives them security, and they are supported; and his eyes are upon their ways.

Job 8:17

His roots twine about the stoneheap; he lives among the rocks.

Psalm 116:5

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

Psalm 119:137

Righteous art thou, O Lord, and right are thy judgments.

Psalm 119:75

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

Psalm 145:17

The Lord is just in all his ways, and kind in all his doings.

Psalm 37:1

Fret not yourself because of the wicked, be not envious of wrongdoers!

Psalm 37:35

I have seen a wicked man overbearing, and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.

Psalm 51:4

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, so that thou art justified in thy sentence and blameless in thy judgment.

Psalm 51:6

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

Psalm 92:7

that, though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction for ever,

Proverbs 1:32

For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacence of fools destroys them;

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is a vanity which takes place on earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

Isaiah 41:21

Set forth your case, says the Lord; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.

Isaiah 48:8

You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would deal very treacherously, and that from birth you were called a rebel.

Jeremiah 11:20

But, O Lord of hosts, who judgest righteously, who tries the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance upon them, for to thee have I committed my cause.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; believe them not, though they speak fair words to you.”

Jeremiah 3:20

Surely, as a faithless wife leaves her husband, so have you been faithless to me, O house of Israel, says the Lord.’ ”

Jeremiah 3:7

And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me’; but she did not return, and her false sister Judah saw it.

Jeremiah 32:16

“After I had given the deed of 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 been utterly faithless to me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:2

O that I had in the desert a wayfarers' lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.

Lamentations 1:18

“The Lord is in the right, for I have rebelled against his word; but hear, all you peoples, and behold my suffering; my maidens 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 my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?

Daniel 9:14

Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us; for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works which he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice.

Daniel 9:7

To thee, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those that are near and those that are far away, in all the lands to which thou hast driven them, because of the treachery which they have committed against thee.

Hosea 6:7

But at Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.

Habakkuk 1:4

So the law is slacked and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous, so justice goes forth perverted.

Zephaniah 3:5

The Lord within her is righteous, he does no wrong; every morning he shows forth his justice, each dawn he does not fail; 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?” By saying, “Every one who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”

Malachi 3:15

Henceforth we deem the arrogant blessed; evildoers not only prosper but when they put God to the test they escape.’ ”

Deuteronomy 32:4

“The Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.