Jeremiah 12:1 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

¹ Just art thou, O Jehovah, for I will strive to thee: surely I will speak judgments with thee: Wherefore did the way of the evil prosper? all they acting faithlessly with treachery were secure?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ 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

¹ 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)

¹ 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

¹ 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

¹ 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

¹ 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?

Jeremiah 12:1 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 18:25

Far be it with respect to thee doing as this word to kill the just with the wicked; and for the just to be as the wicked, far be it with respect to thee: shall not the judge of all the earth do judgment?

Ezra 9:15

O Jehovah God of Israel, thou art just: for we remained an escaping as this day: behold us before thee in our guilts; for not to stand before thee for

Nehemiah 9:33

And thou art just for all brought upon us; for thou didst the truth and we were evil:

Job 12:6

The tents to those oppressing will be secure, and confidence to those provoking God to anger: whom God will bring into his hand

Job 13:3

But I will speak to the Almighty; I shall delight to plead before God.

Job 24:12

From the city men will groan, and the soul of the wounded will cry out: and God will not set folly.

Job 24:23

It will he given to him for confidence, and he will rest upon: and his eyes upon their ways.

Job 8:17

His roots were entwined upon a heap, he shall see a house of stones.

Psalm 116:5

Jehovah is merciful and just, and our God compassionates

Psalm 119:137

Just art thou, O Jehovah, and upright thy judgments.

Psalm 119:75

I knew, O Jehovah, that thy judgments are justice, and in truth thou didst humble me.

Psalm 145:17

Jehovah is just in all his ways, and merciful in all his works.

Psalm 37:1

To David. Thou shalt not be angry at those doing evil, and thou shalt not envy those working iniquity.

Psalm 37:35

I saw the unjust one making afraid, and spreading abroad as a green native tree.

Psalm 51:4

Against thee, thee alone, did I sin, and I did evil in thine eyes: so that thou wilt be justified in thy speaking, and thou wilt be pure in thy judging.

Psalm 51:6

Behold, thou didst delight in truth in the reins, and in bidden things thou wilt cause me to know wisdom.

Psalm 92:7

In the putting forth of the unjust as grass, and all working iniquity shall flourish; to destroy them even to forever:

Proverbs 1:32

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the error of the foolish shall destroy them.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is vanity which was done upon the earth; that there is the just which it comes upon them according to the work of the unjust: and there is the unjust, it comes upon them according to the work of the just. I said, Also this is vanity.

Isaiah 41:21

Bring near your cause, Will say Jehovah; draw near your strong defences, will the king of Jacob say:

Isaiah 48:8

Also thou heardest not; also thou knewest not; also from then thine ear was not opened: for I knew, acting deceitfully, thou wilt act deceitfully, and it was called to thee transgressing from the womb.

Jeremiah 11:20

O Jehovah of armies, judging justice and trying the reins and the heart, I shall see thy vengeance from them, for to thee I uncovered my cause.

Jeremiah 12:6

For also thy brethren and the house of thy father, they also acted faithlessly with thee; they also called after thee a fulness: thou shalt not believe in them for they will speak to thee good things.

Jeremiah 3:20

Surely a wife acting faithlessly by her friend, so ye acted faithlessly against me, O house of Israel, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 3:7

And saying after she did all these, Thou shalt turn back to me. And she turned not back; and her faithless sister Judah will see it

Jeremiah 32:16

And I shall pray to Jehovah, after my giving the writing of the purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, saying,

Jeremiah 5:11

For acting faithlessly, the house of Israel and the house of Judah acted faithlessly against me, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 9:2

Who will give me in the desert a lodging-place of travelers? and I will leave my people and go from them, for they all commit adultery; an assembly of those acting faithlessly.

Lamentations 1:18

Jehovah he is just: for I embittered his mouth: hear now, all ye peoples, and see my pain: my virgins and my chosen ones went into captivity.

Ezekiel 18:25

And ye said, The way of Jehovah will not make even. Hear ye now, O house of Israel; shall not my way make even? shall not your ways make hot even?

Daniel 9:14

And Jehovah will watch for evil, and will bring it upon us: for Jehovah our God is just upon all his works which he did: and we heard not to his voice.

Daniel 9:7

To thee, O Jehovah, justice, and to us shame of face, as this day to the men of Judah, and to those dwelling in Jerusalem, and to all Israel being near and being far off, in all the lands where thou didst thrust them there in their transgression which they transgressed against thee.

Hosea 6:7

And they as man passed by the covenant: there they acted faithlessly against me.

Habakkuk 1:4

For this, the law will be slack, and judgment will not go forth forever: for the unjust surrounds the just; for this perverted judgment will go forth.

Zephaniah 3:5

Jehovah is just in her midst; he will not do iniquity: in morning by morning he will give his judgment to the light, he as not wanting; and the evil will not know shame.

Malachi 2:17

Ye wearied Jehovah with your words: and ye said, In what did we weary? In your saying, Every one doing evil is good in the eyes of Jehovah, and he delighted in them; or, Where the God of judgment?

Malachi 3:15

And now we pronounce the proud happy; also they working injustice were built up; also they tried Jehovah and they will be delivered.

Deuteronomy 32:4

The Rock, his work complete: For all his ways judgment: A God of faithfulness and not of iniquity Just and right is he.