Jeremiah 12:1

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

Cross-references · 29

• Mal 3:15Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
• Ps 92:7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
• Ps 37:1By David. Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.
• Ps 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
• Ps 51:4Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
• Ps 73:3–28For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
• Hab 1:4Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
• Zeph 3:5Yahweh, 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.
• Dan 9:7Lord, 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.
• Ps 94:3–4Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
• Job 21:7–15“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
• Job 12:6The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
• Jer 11:20But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.
• Hab 1:13–17You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
• Jer 5:27–28As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
• Jer 12:6For even your brothers, 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.
• Ps 119:137You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.
• Job 13:3“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
• Gen 18:25Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t 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,” says Yahweh.
• Ezra 9:15Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”
• Isa 41:21Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons,” says the King of Jacob.
• Deut 32:4The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
• Rom 3:5–6But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
• Hos 6:7But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.
• Isa 48:8Yes, you didn’t hear; yes, you didn’t know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
• Ps 145:17Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
• Prov 1:32For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
• Ps 119:75Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

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