Jeremiah 12:1

O Lord, if I dispute with thee, thou art righteous: yet let mee talke with thee of thy iudgements: wherefore doeth the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they in wealth that rebelliously transgresse?

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

2Thou hast planted them, and they haue taken roote: they grow, and bring forth fruite: thou art neere in their mouth, and farre from their reines.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:4Perfect is the worke of the mighty God: for all his wayes are iudgement. God is true, and without wickednesse: iust, and righteous is he.

Job 8:17The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountaine, and are folden about ye house of stones.

Job 13:3But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God.

Job 24:12Men cry out of the citie, and the soules of the slayne cry out: yet God doth not charge them with follie.

Psalms 37:1A Psalme of David. Fret not thy selfe because of the wicked men, neither be enuious for the euill doers.

Psalms 51:4Against thee, against thee onely haue I sinned, and done euill in thy sight, that thou mayest be iust when thou speakest, and pure when thou iudgest.

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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