Jeremiah 12:1

Jeremiah, affirming God's righteousness, nonetheless asks why the wicked prosper.

Cross-references · 29

• Mal 3:15So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”
• Ps 92:7that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
• Ps 37:1Of David. Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.
• Ps 37:35I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
• Ps 51:4Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.
• Ps 73:3–28For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
• Hab 1:4Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
• Zeph 3:5The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.
• Dan 9:7To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.
• Ps 94:3–4How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked exult?
• Job 21:7–15Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
• Job 12:6The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.
• Jer 11:20O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
• Hab 1:13–17Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
• Jer 5:27–28Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.
• Jer 12:6Even your brothers—your own father’s household—even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.
• Ps 119:137Righteous are You, O LORD, and upright are Your judgments.
• Job 13:3Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.
• Gen 18:25Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”
• Jer 5:11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to Me,” declares the LORD.
• Ezra 9:15O LORD, God of Israel, You are righteous! For we remain this day as a remnant. Here we are before You in our guilt, though because of it no one can stand before You.”
• Isa 41:21“Present your case,” says the LORD. “Submit your arguments,” says the King of Jacob.
• Deut 32:4He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.
• Rom 3:5–6But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.
• Hos 6:7But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.
• Isa 48:8You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.
• Ps 145:17The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.
• Prov 1:32For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
• Ps 119:75I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

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