Jeremiah 12:1
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Jeremiah's Complaint
12 (A)Righteous are you, O Lord,
when I complain to you;
yet I would plead my case before you.
(B)Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all (C)who are treacherous thrive?
Malachi 3:15
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15 And now we call (A)the arrogant blessed. (B)Evildoers not only prosper but (C)they put God to the test and they escape.’”
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Psalm 92:7
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7 that though (A)the wicked sprout like grass
and all (B)evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever;
Psalm 37:1
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He Will Not Forsake His Saints
[a] Of David.
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- Psalm 37:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem, each stanza beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet
Job 12:6
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6 (A)The tents of robbers are at peace,
and those who provoke God are secure,
who bring their god in their hand.[a]
Footnotes
- Job 12:6 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Habakkuk 1:4
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4 (A)So the law is paralyzed,
and justice never goes forth.
(B)For the wicked surround the righteous;
so justice goes forth perverted.
Daniel 9:7
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7 To you, (A)O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, (B)those who are near and (C)those who are far away, in (D)all the lands to which you have driven them, because of (E)the treachery that they have committed against you.
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Psalm 73:3-28
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4 For they have no pangs until death;
their bodies are fat and sleek.
5 They are not in trouble as others are;
they are not (D)stricken like the rest of mankind.
6 Therefore pride is (E)their necklace;
violence covers them as (F)a garment.
7 Their (G)eyes swell out through fatness;
their hearts overflow with follies.
8 They scoff and (H)speak with malice;
loftily they threaten oppression.
9 They set their mouths against the heavens,
and their tongue struts through the earth.
10 Therefore his people turn back to them,
and find (I)no fault in them.[a]
11 And they say, (J)“How can God know?
Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
12 Behold, these are the wicked;
always at ease, they (K)increase in riches.
13 All in vain have I (L)kept my heart clean
and (M)washed my hands in innocence.
14 For all the day long I have been (N)stricken
and (O)rebuked (P)every morning.
15 If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
I would have betrayed (Q)the generation of your children.
16 But when I thought how to understand this,
it seemed to me (R)a wearisome task,
17 until I went into (S)the sanctuary of God;
then I discerned their (T)end.
18 Truly you set them in (U)slippery places;
you make them fall to ruin.
19 How they are destroyed (V)in a moment,
swept away utterly by (W)terrors!
20 Like (X)a dream when one awakes,
O Lord, when (Y)you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
21 When my soul was embittered,
when I was pricked in heart,
22 I was (Z)brutish and ignorant;
I was like (AA)a beast toward you.
23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you;
you (AB)hold my right hand.
24 You (AC)guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will (AD)receive me to glory.
25 (AE)Whom have I in heaven but you?
And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
26 (AF)My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is (AG)the strength[b] of my heart and my (AH)portion (AI)forever.
27 For behold, those who are (AJ)far from you shall perish;
you put an end to everyone who is (AK)unfaithful to you.
28 But for me it is good to (AL)be near God;
I have made the Lord God my (AM)refuge,
that I may (AN)tell of all your works.
Footnotes
- Psalm 73:10 Probable reading; Hebrew the waters of a full cup are drained by them
- Psalm 73:26 Hebrew rock
Psalm 51:4
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4 (A)Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil (B)in your sight,
(C)so that you may be justified in your words
and blameless in your judgment.
Psalm 37:35
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Footnotes
- Psalm 37:35 The identity of this tree is uncertain
Zephaniah 3:5
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5 The Lord within her (A)is righteous;
he does no injustice;
every morning he shows forth his justice;
each dawn he does not fail;
but (B)the unjust knows no shame.
Habakkuk 1:13-17
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13 You who are (A)of purer eyes than to see evil
and cannot look at wrong,
(B)why do you idly look at traitors
and (C)remain silent when the wicked swallows up
the man more righteous than he?
14 You make mankind like the fish of the sea,
like crawling things that have no ruler.
15 (D)He[a] brings all of them up (E)with a hook;
he drags them out with his net;
he gathers them in his dragnet;
so he rejoices and is glad.
16 (F)Therefore he sacrifices to his net
and makes offerings to his dragnet;
for by them he lives in luxury,[b]
and his food is rich.
17 Is he then to keep on emptying his net
(G)and mercilessly killing nations forever?
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 1:15 That is, the wicked foe
- Habakkuk 1:16 Hebrew his portion is fat
Jeremiah 11:20
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20 But, O Lord of hosts, who judges righteously,
who (A)tests (B)the heart and the mind,
(C)let me see your vengeance upon them,
for to you have I committed my cause.
Psalm 94:3-4
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3 O Lord, (A)how long shall the wicked,
how long shall (B)the wicked exult?
4 They pour out their (C)arrogant words;
all (D)the evildoers boast.
Job 21:7-15
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7 (A)Why do the wicked live,
reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
8 Their (B)offspring are established in their presence,
and their descendants before their eyes.
9 Their houses are (C)safe from fear,
and (D)no rod of God is upon them.
10 Their bull breeds without fail;
their cow calves and (E)does not miscarry.
11 They send out their (F)little boys like a flock,
and their children dance.
12 They sing to (G)the tambourine and (H)the lyre
and rejoice to the sound of (I)the pipe.
13 They (J)spend their days in prosperity,
and in (K)peace they go down to (L)Sheol.
14 They say to God, (M)‘Depart from us!
We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
15 (N)What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
And what (O)profit do we get if we pray to him?’
Jeremiah 12:6
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6 For (A)even your brothers and the house of your father,
(B)even they have dealt treacherously with you;
they are in full cry after you;
(C)do not believe them,
though they speak friendly words to you.”
Jeremiah 5:27-28
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27 Like a cage full of birds,
their houses are full of deceit;
therefore they have become great and rich;
28 (A)they have grown fat and sleek.
They know no bounds in deeds of evil;
(B)they judge not with justice
the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper,
and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
Jeremiah 5:11
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11 (A)For the house of Israel and the house of Judah
have been utterly treacherous to me,
declares the Lord.
Job 13:3
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Ezra 9:15
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15 O Lord, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a (A)remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our (B)guilt, (C)for none can stand before you because of this.”
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Romans 3:5-6
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5 But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict (A)wrath on us? ((B)I speak in a human way.) 6 By no means! For then how could (C)God judge the world?
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Hosea 6:7
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Isaiah 48:8
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8 You have never heard, you have never known,
from of old your ear has not been opened.
For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously,
and that (A)from before birth you were called a rebel.
Isaiah 41:21
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The Futility of Idols
21 Set forth your case, says the Lord;
bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.
Proverbs 1:32
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32 For the simple are killed by (A)their turning away,
and (B)the complacency of fools destroys them;
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