Be it 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?*
Jeremiah 12:1 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Righteous are you, LORD, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition UNCOMPROMISINGLY RIGHTEOUS and rigidly just are You, O Lord, when I complain against and contend with You. Yet let me plead and reason the case with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all they at ease and thriving who deal very treacherously and deceitfully? American Standard Version (1901) Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously? Common English Bible If I took you to court, LORD, you would win. But I still have questions about your justice. Why do guilty persons enjoy success? Why are evildoers so happy? Catholic Public Domain Version Certainly, O Lord, you are just. But if I may contend with you, while still speaking what is just to you: Why does the way of the impious prosper? Why is it well with all those who transgress and act unfairly? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper? Why is it well with all them that transgress and do wickedly? |
Be it 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?*
LORD, the God of Yisra'el, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for none can stand before you because of this.
However you are just in all that is come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;
The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn't regard the folly.
God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.
His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
LORD, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evil-doers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
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.
Produce your cause,* says the LORD. *Bring forth your strong reasons,* says the King of Ya`akov.
Yes, you didn't hear; yes, you didn't know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did deal very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.
But, the LORD of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.
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.
Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, house of Yisra'el, says the LORD.
I said after she had done all these things, She will return to me; but she didn't return: and her treacherous sister Yehudah saw it.
Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Barukh the son of Neriyah 1, I prayed to the LORD, saying,
For the house of Yisra'el and the house of Yehudah have dealt very treacherously against me, says the LORD.
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.
The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his mitzvah: Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, house of Yisra'el: Is my way not equal? Aren't your ways unequal?
Therefore has the LORD 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.
Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Yehudah, and to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and to all Yisra'el, 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.
But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.
The LORD, in the midst of 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.
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 sight of the LORD, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'
Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'
The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice: a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.