Jeremiah 12:1

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Jeremiah’s Complaint

12 You are always righteous,^(A) Lord,
    when I bring a case^(B) before you.
Yet I would speak with you about your justice:^(C)
    Why does the way of the wicked prosper?^(D)
    Why do all the faithless live at ease?

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Job 21:7

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⁷Why do the wicked live on,
growing old and increasing in power?^(A)

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Psalm 37:1-2

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Psalm 37^[a]

Of David.

¹Do not fret because of those who are evil
or be envious^(A) of those who do wrong;^(B)
²for like the grass they will soon wither,^(C)
like green plants they will soon die away.^(D)

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Footnotes

Psalm 37:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem, the stanzas of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

Psalm 73:3

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³For I envied^(A) the arrogant
when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.^(B)

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Psalm 92:6-7

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⁶Senseless people^(A) do not know,
    fools do not understand,
⁷that though the wicked spring up like grass
    and all evildoers flourish,
    they will be destroyed forever.^(B)

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Isaiah 45:3

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³I will give you hidden treasures,^(A)
riches stored in secret places,^(B)
so that you may know^(C) that I am the Lord,
the God of Israel, who summons you by name.^(D)