Jeremiah 12:1 - New Revised Standard Version

¹ You will be in the right, O Lord, when I lay charges against you; but let me put my case to you. Why does the way of the guilty prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

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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 from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”

Ezra 9:15

O Lord, God of Israel, you are just, but we have escaped as a remnant, as is now the case. Here we are before you in our guilt, though no one can face you because of this.”

Nehemiah 9:33

You have been just in all that has come upon us, for you have 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 hands.

Job 13:3

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

Job 24:12

From the city the dying groan, and the throat 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; his eyes are upon their ways.

Job 8:17

Their roots twine around the stoneheap; they live among the rocks.

Psalm 116:5

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

Psalm 119:137

You are righteous, O Lord, and your judgments are right.

Psalm 119:75

I know, O Lord, that your judgments are right, and that in faithfulness you have humbled me.

Psalm 145:17

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

Psalm 37:1

Do not fret because of the wicked; do not be envious of wrongdoers,

Psalm 37:35

I have seen the wicked oppressing, and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.

Psalm 51:4

Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgment.

Psalm 51:6

You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

Psalm 92:7

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

Proverbs 1:32

For waywardness kills the simple, and the complacency of fools destroys them;

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people who are treated according to the conduct of the wicked, and there are wicked people who are treated according to the conduct 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 you, O Lord of hosts, who judge righteously, who try the heart and the mind, let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have committed my cause.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even your kinsfolk and your own family, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them, though they speak friendly words to you.

Jeremiah 3:20

Instead, as a faithless wife leaves her husband, so you have 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 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 traveler's lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a band of traitors.

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 young women and young men have gone into captivity.

Ezekiel 18:25

Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is unfair.” Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way unfair? Is it not your ways that are unfair?

Daniel 9:14

So the Lord kept watch over this calamity until he brought it upon us. Indeed, the Lord our God is right in all that he has done; for we have disobeyed his voice.

Daniel 9:7

“Righteousness is on your side, O Lord, but open shame, as at this day, falls on us, the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you.

Hosea 6:7

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

Habakkuk 1:4

So the law becomes slack and justice never prevails. The wicked surround the righteous— therefore judgment comes forth perverted.

Zephaniah 3:5

The Lord within it is righteous; he does no wrong. Every morning he renders his judgment, each dawn without 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, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”

Malachi 3:15

Now we count the arrogant happy; evildoers not only prosper, but when they put God to the test they escape.”

Deuteronomy 32:4

The Rock, his work is perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God, without deceit, just and upright is he;