Jeremiah 12:1

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?

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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?

In Context

2You planted them, and they took root. They are prospering and bearing fruit. You are near to their mouths, but far from their hearts.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:4The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments. God is faithful and without any iniquity. He is just and upright.

Job 8:17His roots will crowd together over a heap of stones, and among the stones he will remain.

Job 13:3Yet I speak this way to the Almighty, and I desire to argue with God,

Job 24:12In the cities, they caused the men to groan and the spirit of the wounded to cry out, and so God does not allow this to go unpunished.

Psalms 37:1A Psalm of David, in commemoration of the Sabbath.

Psalms 51:4All day long your tongue thinks up injustice. Like a sharp razor, you have wrought deceit.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 12:1

In this chapter we have, I. The prophet's humble complaint to God of the success that wicked people had in their wicked practices ( ver. 1, 2 ) and his appeal to God concerning his own integrity ( ver. 3 ), with a prayer that God would, for the sake of the public, bring the wickedness of the wicked to an end, ver. 3, 4 . II. God's rebuke to the prophet for his uneasiness at his present troubles, bidding him prepare for greater, ver. 5, 6 . III. A sad lamentation of the present deplorable state of the Israel of… Read the whole commentary →

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