Jeremiah 12:1

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

Cross-references · 29

• Mal 3:15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
• Ps 92:7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
• Ps 37:1Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
• Ps 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
• Ps 51:4Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
• Ps 73:3–28For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
• Hab 1:4Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
• Zeph 3:5The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
• Dan 9:7O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
• Ps 94:3–4LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
• Job 21:7–15Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
• Job 12:6The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
• Jer 11:20But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
• Hab 1:13–17Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
• Jer 5:27–28As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
• Jer 12:6For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
• Ps 119:137Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.
• Job 13:3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
• Gen 18:25That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
• Jer 5:11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
• Ezra 9:15O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.
• Isa 41:21Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
• Deut 32:4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
• Rom 3:5–6But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
• Hos 6:7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
• Isa 48:8Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
• Ps 145:17The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
• Prov 1:32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
• Ps 119:75I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

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