Jeremiah 12:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

Righteous

Talk

Job 13:3

Isaiah 41:21

Wherefore doth

Deal

General references

Psalm 119:137

Bible References

Righteous

But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.

Be 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?"

The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice: a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

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

Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.

Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; 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.

You 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,

Yahweh, in the midst of 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.

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

Talk

"Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

Produce your cause," says Yahweh. "Bring forth your strong reasons," says the King of Jacob.

Wherefore doth

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.

"Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

Don't fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'

Deal

For 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.

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me," says Yahweh.

Yes, you didn't hear; yes, you didn't know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did deal very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.

But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

General references

You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.