Jeremiah 12:1 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹ You are always righteous, Lord, when I bring a case before you. Yet I would speak with you about your justice: why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

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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?

Jeremiah 12:1 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from you to do such a thing – to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?’

Ezra 9:15

Lord, the God of Israel, you are righteous! We are left this day as a remnant. Here we are before you in our guilt, though because of it not one of us can stand in your presence.’

Nehemiah 9:33

In all that has happened to us, you have remained righteous; you have acted faithfully, while we acted wickedly.

Job 12:6

The tents of marauders are undisturbed, and those who provoke God are secure – those whom God has in his hand.

Job 13:3

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

Job 24:12

The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. But God charges no-one with wrongdoing.

Job 24:23

He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways.

Job 8:17

it entwines its roots round a pile of rocks and looks for a place among the stones.

Psalm 116:5

The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.

Psalm 119:137

You are righteous, Lord, and your laws are right.

Psalm 119:75

I know, Lord, that your laws are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

Psalm 145:17

The Lord is righteous in all his ways and faithful in all he does.

Psalm 37:1

Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong;

Psalm 37:35

I have seen a wicked and ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree,

Psalm 51:4

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.

Psalm 51:6

Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place.

Psalm 92:7

that though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed for ever.

Proverbs 1:32

For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them;

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless.

Isaiah 41:21

‘Present your case,’ says the Lord. ‘Set forth your arguments,’ says Jacob’s King.

Isaiah 48:8

You have neither heard nor understood; from of old your ears have not been open. Well do I know how treacherous you are; you were called a rebel from birth.

Jeremiah 11:20

But you, Lord Almighty, who judge righteously and test the heart and mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for to you I have committed my cause.

Jeremiah 12:6

Your relatives, members of your own family – even they have betrayed you; they have raised a loud cry against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.

Jeremiah 3:20

But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,’ declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:7

I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.

Jeremiah 32:16

‘After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord:

Jeremiah 5:11

The people of Israel and the people of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to me,’ declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh, that I had in the desert a lodging place for travellers, so that I might leave my people and go away from them; for they are all adulterers, a crowd of unfaithful people.

Lamentations 1:18

‘The Lord is righteous, yet I rebelled against his command. Listen, all you peoples; look on my suffering. My young men and young women have gone into exile.

Ezekiel 18:25

‘Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not just.” Hear, you Israelites: is my way unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?

Daniel 9:14

The Lord did not hesitate to bring the disaster on us, for the Lord our God is righteous in everything he does; yet we have not obeyed him.

Daniel 9:7

‘Lord, you are righteous, but this day we are covered with shame – the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far, in all the countries where you have scattered us because of our unfaithfulness to you.

Hosea 6:7

As at Adam, they have broken the covenant; they were unfaithful to me there.

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is paralysed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

Zephaniah 3:5

The Lord within her is righteous; he does no wrong. Morning by morning he dispenses his justice, and every new day he does not fail, yet the unrighteous know no shame.

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the Lord with your words. ‘How have we wearied him?’ you ask. By saying, ‘All who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pleased with them’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

Malachi 3:15

But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly evildoers prosper, and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it.” ’

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.