Jeremiah 12:1 - Y'all Version Bible

¹ You are righteous, YHWH, 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?

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

Ezra 9:15

YHWH, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. 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

YHWH is gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

Psalm 119:137

You are righteous, YHWH. Your judgments are upright.

Psalm 119:75

YHWH, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

Psalm 145:17

YHWH is righteous in all ʜɪꜱ ways, and gracious in all ʜɪꜱ works.

Psalm 37:1

Don’t worry because of evildoers, or 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

Surely, 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 emptiness 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 emptiness.

Isaiah 41:21

“Y’all must present y’all’s case,” says YHWH. “Y’all bring out y’all’s arguments!” says the King of Jacob.

Isaiah 48:8

Indeed, you did not hear. and you did not understand. Even long ago, your ear was not opened, for I knew how treacherous-treacherous you are, and were called a rebel from the womb.

Jeremiah 11:20

But, YHWH Almighty, 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 siblings, 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

“Indeed as a woman betrays her companion, so y’all betrayed me, house of Israel,” says YHWH.

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 YHWH, saying,

Jeremiah 5:11

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt treacherous-treacherous against me,” says YHWH.

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

“YHWH is righteous, for I have rebelled against ʜɪꜱ commandment. Y’all must listen all peoples, and y’all must see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

Ezekiel 18:25

“Yet y’all say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Y’all must listen, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Is it not y’all’s ways that are unequal?

Daniel 9:14

Therefore YHWH has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for YHWH 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 paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked surround the righteous, so justice comes out perverted.

Zephaniah 3:5

YHWH, 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

Y’all have wearied YHWH with your* words. Yet y’all say, “How have we wearied him?” Because y’all say, “Everyone who does evil is good in eyes of YHWH, and ʜᴇ delights in them,” or “Where is the God of justice?”

Malachi 3:15

But now we call the arrogant blessed. Indeed, those who do evil are build up, those who test God escape!’”

Deuteronomy 32:4

The Rock: ʜɪꜱ work is perfect, for all ʜɪꜱ ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, Hᴇ is upright and just.