Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Wherefore does the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

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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 have planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 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.

Job 8:17His roots are wrapped about the heap, and sees the place of stones.

Job 13:3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

Job 24:12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God lays not folly to them.

Psalms 37:1Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious against the workers of iniquity.

Psalms 51:4Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight: that you might be justified when you speak, and be clear when you judge.

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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