Jeremiah 12:1

World Messianic Bible British Edition

You are righteous, LORD, when I contend with you; yet I would like to plead a case with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Ezra 9:15

LORD, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”

Nehemiah 9:33

However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

Job 13:3

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

Job 24:12

From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

Job 24:23

God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

Job 8:17

His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.

Psalm 116:5

The LORD is gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

Psalm 119:137

You are righteous, LORD. Your judgements are upright.

Psalm 119:75

LORD, I know that your judgements are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

Psalm 145:17

The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.

Psalm 37:1

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

Psalm 37:35

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

Psalm 51:4

Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

Psalm 51:6

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Psalm 92:7

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Proverbs 1:32

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous 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

Produce your cause,” says the LORD. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.

Isaiah 48:8

Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

Jeremiah 11:20

But, LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

Jeremiah 3:20

“Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says the LORD.

Jeremiah 3:7

I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

Jeremiah 32:16

Now after 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 of wayfaring 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. Please hear all you peoples, and see 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 equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?

Daniel 9:14

Therefore the LORD has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

Daniel 9:7

“Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

Hosea 6:7

But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me there.

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is paralysed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

Zephaniah 3:5

The LORD, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in the LORD’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

Malachi 3:15

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

Deuteronomy 32:4

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.