Jeremiah 12:1

Geneva Bible (1560)

O Lorde, 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?

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  • Job 12:6 : 6 The tabernacles of robbers doe prosper, and they are in safetie, that prouoke God, whome God hath enriched with his hand.
  • Mal 3:15 : 15 Therefore wee count the proude blessed: euen they that worke wickednesse, are set vp, and they that tempt God, yea, they are deliuered.
  • Ps 37:1 : 1 A Psalme of Dauid. Fret not thy selfe because of the wicked men, neither be enuious for the euill doers.
  • Ps 51:4 : 4 Against 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.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 (When the wicked growe as the grasse, and all the workers of wickednesse doe flourish) that they shall be destroyed for euer.
  • Ps 94:3-4 : 3 Lord how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? 4 They prate and speake fiercely: all the workers of iniquitie vaunt themselues.
  • Ps 37:35 : 35 I haue seene the wicked strong, and spreading himselfe like a greene bay tree.
  • Job 13:3 : 3 But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God.
  • Job 21:7-9 : 7 Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth? 8 Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes. 9 Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them. 10 Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe. 11 They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance. 12 They take the tabret & harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs. 13 They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue. 14 They say also vnto God, Depart fro vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes. 15 Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?
  • Ezra 9:15 : 15 O Lord God of Israel, thou art iust, for we haue bene reserued to escape, as appeareth this day: beholde, we are before thee in our trespasse: therfore we canot stand before thee because of it.
  • Jer 5:11 : 11 For the house of Israel, and the house of Iudah haue grieuously trespassed against me, saith the Lord.
  • Jer 5:27-28 : 27 As a cage is full of birdes, so are their houses full of deceite: thereby they are become great and waxen riche. 28 They are waxen fat and shining: they doe ouerpasse the deedes of the wicked: they execute no iudgement, no not the iudgement of the fatherlesse: yet they prosper, though they execute no iudgement for the poore.
  • Jer 11:20 : 20 But O Lord of hostes, that iudgest righteously, and triest the reines and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for vnto thee haue I opened my cause.
  • Dan 9:7 : 7 O Lord, righteousnes belongeth vnto thee, and vnto vs open shame, as appeareth this day vnto euery man of Iudah, and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem: yea, vnto all Israel, both neere and farre off, through all the countreys, whither thou hast driuen them, because of their offences, that they haue committed against thee.
  • Hab 1:4 : 4 Therefore the Lawe is dissolued, and iudgement doeth neuer go forth: for the wicked doeth compasse about the righteous: therefore wrong iudgement proceedeth.
  • Hab 1:13-17 : 13 Thou art of pure eyes, and canst not see euill: thou canst not behold wickednesse: wherefore doest thou looke vpon the transgressors, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked deuoureth the man, that is more righteous then he? 14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, and as the creeping things, that haue no ruler ouer them. 15 They take vp all with the angle: they catch it in their net, and gather it in their yarne, whereof they reioyce and are glad. 16 Therefore they sacrifice vnto their net, and burne incense vnto their yarne, because by them their portion is fat & their meat plenteous. 17 Shall they therefore stretch out their net and not spare continually to slay the nations?
  • Zeph 3:5 : 5 The iust Lord is in the middes thereof: he will doe none iniquitie: euery morning doeth hee bring his iudgement to light, he faileth not: but the wicked will not learne to be ashamed.
  • Hos 6:7 : 7 But they like men haue transgressed the couenant: there haue they trespassed against me.
  • Jer 12:6 : 6 For euen thy brethren, and the house of thy father, euen they haue delt vnfaithfully with thee, and they haue cryed out altogether vpon thee: but beleeue them not, though they speake faire to thee.
  • Rom 3:5-6 : 5 Now if our vnrighteousnes comend the righteousnes of God, what shal we say? Is God vnrighteous which punisheth? (I speake as a man.) 6 God forbid: els how shal God iudge ye world?
  • Gen 18:25 : 25 Be it farre fro thee from doing this thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be euen as the wicked, be it farre from thee. shall not the Iudge of all the worlde doe right?
  • Deut 32:4 : 4 Perfect is the worke of the mighty God: for all his wayes are iudgement. God is true, and without wickednesse: iust, and righteous is he.
  • Ps 73:3-9 : 3 For I feared at the foolish, when I sawe the prosperitie of the wicked. 4 For there are no bandes in their death, but they are lustie and strong. 5 They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued with other men. 6 Therefore pride is as a chayne vnto them, and crueltie couereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: they haue more then heart can wish. 8 They are licentious, and speake wickedly of their oppression: they talke presumptuously. 9 They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth. 10 Therefore his people turne hither: for waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. 11 And they say, Howe doeth God know it? or is there knowledge in the most High? 12 Lo, these are the wicked, yet prosper they alway, and increase in riches. 13 Certainely I haue clensed mine heart in vaine, and washed mine hands in innocencie. 14 For dayly haue I bene punished, and chastened euery morning. 15 If I say, I will iudge thus, beholde the generation of thy children: I haue trespassed. 16 Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me, 17 Vntill I went into the Sanctuarie of God: then vnderstoode I their ende. 18 Surely thou hast set them in slipperie places, and castest them downe into desolation. 19 How suddenly are they destroyed, perished and horribly consumed, 20 As a dreame when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest vs vp, thou shalt make their image despised. 21 Certainely mine heart was vexed, and I was pricked in my reines: 22 So foolish was I & ignorant: I was a beast before thee. 23 Yet I was alway with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. 24 Thou wilt guide me by thy counsell, and afterward receiue me to glory. 25 Whom haue I in heauen but thee? and I haue desired none in the earth with thee. 26 My flesh fayleth and mine heart also: but God is the strength of mine heart, and my portion for euer. 27 For loe, they that withdrawe themselues from thee, shall perish: thou destroyest all them that goe a whoring from thee. 28 As for me, it is good for me to draw neere to God: therefore I haue put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy workes.
  • Ps 119:75 : 75 I knowe, O Lorde, that thy iudgements are right, and that thou hast afflicted me iustly.
  • Ps 119:137 : 137 Tsaddi. Righteous art thou, O Lorde, and iust are thy iudgements.
  • Ps 145:17 : 17 The Lord is righteous in all his wayes, and holy in all his workes.
  • Prov 1:32 : 32 For ease slaieth the foolish, and the prosperitie of fooles destroyeth them.
  • Isa 41:21 : 21 Stand to your cause, saith the Lord: bring forth your strong reasons, saith ye King of Iaakob.
  • Isa 48:8 : 8 Yet thou heardest them not, neither diddest know them, neither yet was thine eare opened of olde: for I knewe that thou wouldest grieuously transgresse: therefore haue I called thee a transgressour from the wombe.

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