Jeremiah 12:1 Cross References

Jeremiah 12:1

1: LORD, you always give me justice when I bring a case before you. Now let me bring you this complaint: Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why are evil people so happy?

Malachi 3:15

  1. From now on we will say, "Blessed are the arrogant." For those who do evil get rich, and those who dare God to punish them go free of harm.'"

Psalms 37:1

  1. Don't worry about the wicked. Don't envy those who do wrong.

Psalms 92:7

  1. Although the wicked flourish like weeds, and evildoers blossom with success, there is only eternal destruction ahead of them.

Job 12:6

  1. But even robbers are left in peace, and those who provoke God--and God has them in his power--live in safety!

Habakkuk 1:4

  1. The law has become paralyzed and useless, and there is no justice given in the courts. The wicked far outnumber the righteous, and justice is perverted with bribes and trickery.

Psalms 51:4

  1. Against you, and you alone, have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. You will be proved right in what you say, and your judgment against me is just.

Daniel 9:7

  1. "Lord, you are in the right; but our faces are covered with shame, just as you see us now. This is true of us all, including the people of Judah and Jerusalem and all Israel, scattered near and far, wherever you have driven us because of our disloyalty to you.

Psalms 37:35

  1. I myself have seen it happen--proud and evil people thriving like mighty trees.

Zephaniah 3:5

  1. But the LORD is still there in the city, and he does no wrong. Day by day his justice is more evident, but no one takes notice--the wicked know no shame.

Jeremiah 11:20

  1. O LORD Almighty, you are just, and you examine the deepest thoughts of hearts and minds. Let me see your vengeance against them, for I have committed my cause to you.

Psalms 94:3

  1. How long, O LORD? How long will the wicked be allowed to gloat?
  2. Hear their arrogance! How these evildoers boast!

Habakkuk 1:13

  1. You are perfectly just in this. But will you, who cannot allow sin in any form, stand idly by while they swallow us up? Should you be silent while the wicked destroy people who are more righteous than they?
  2. Are we but fish to be caught and killed? Are we but creeping things that have no leader to defend them from their enemies?
  3. Must we be strung up on their hooks and dragged out in their nets while they rejoice?
  4. Then they will worship their nets and burn incense in front of them. "These nets are the gods who have made us rich!" they will claim.
  5. Will you let them get away with this forever? Will they succeed forever in their heartless conquests?

Job 21:7

  1. "The truth is that the wicked live to a good old age. They grow old and wealthy.
  2. They live to see their children grow to maturity, and they enjoy their grandchildren.
  3. Their homes are safe from every fear, and God does not punish them.
  4. Their bulls never fail to breed. Their cows bear calves without miscarriage.
  5. Their children skip about like lambs in a flock of sheep.

Psalms 73:3

  1. For I envied the proud when I saw them prosper despite their wickedness.
  2. They seem to live such a painless life; their bodies are so healthy and strong.
  3. They aren't troubled like other people or plagued with problems like everyone else.
  4. They wear pride like a jeweled necklace, and their clothing is woven of cruelty.
  5. These fat cats have everything their hearts could ever wish for!

Job 13:3

  1. Oh, how I long to speak directly to the Almighty. I want to argue my case with God himself.

Jeremiah 5:27

  1. Like a cage filled with birds, their homes are filled with evil plots. And the result? Now they are great and rich.
  2. They are well fed and well groomed, and there is no limit to their wicked deeds. They refuse justice to orphans and deny the rights of the poor.

Jeremiah 5:11

  1. The people of Israel and Judah are full of treachery against me," says the LORD.

Ezra 9:15

  1. O LORD, God of Israel, you are just. We stand before you in our guilt as nothing but an escaped remnant, though in such a condition none of us can stand in your presence."

Psalms 119:137

  1. O LORD, you are righteous, and your decisions are fair.

Proverbs 1:32

  1. For they are simpletons who turn away from me--to death. They are fools, and their own complacency will destroy them.

Isaiah 48:8

  1. "Yes, I will tell you of things that are entirely new, for I know so well what traitors you are. You have been rebels from your earliest childhood, rotten through and through.

Deuteronomy 32:4

  1. He is the Rock; his work is perfect. Everything he does is just and fair. He is a faithful God who does no wrong; how just and upright he is!

Jeremiah 12:6

  1. Even your own brothers, members of your own family, have turned on you. They have plotted, raising a cry against you. Do not trust them, no matter how pleasantly they speak.

Isaiah 41:21

  1. "Can your idols make such claims as these? Let them come and show what they can do!" says the LORD, the King of Israel.

Psalms 145:17

  1. The LORD is righteous in everything he does; he is filled with kindness.

Psalms 119:75

  1. I know, O LORD, that your decisions are fair; you disciplined me because I needed it.

Genesis 18:25

  1. Surely you wouldn't do such a thing, destroying the innocent with the guilty. Why, you would be treating the innocent and the guilty exactly the same! Surely you wouldn't do that! Should not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?"

Romans 3:5

  1. "But," some say, "our sins serve a good purpose, for people will see God's goodness when he declares us sinners to be innocent. Isn't it unfair, then, for God to punish us?" (That is actually the way some people talk.)
  2. Of course not! If God is not just, how is he qualified to judge the world?

Hosea 6:7

  1. "But like Adam, you broke my covenant and rebelled against me.
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