Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease? Cross References Ezra 9:15 O LORD, God of Israel, You are righteous! For we remain this day as a remnant. Here we are before You in our guilt, though because of it no one can stand before You." Nehemiah 9:33 You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly. Job 12:6 The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure--those who carry their god in their hands. Job 13:3 Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God. Job 21:7 Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power? Psalm 116:5 The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion. Ecclesiastes 8:14 There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile. Jeremiah 3:7 I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it. Jeremiah 3:20 But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel," declares the LORD. Jeremiah 5:11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to Me," declares the LORD. Jeremiah 5:27 Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich. Jeremiah 5:28 They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy. Jeremiah 9:2 If only I had a traveler's lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people. Jeremiah 11:20 O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause. Jeremiah 32:16 After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD: Lamentations 1:18 The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity. Ezekiel 18:25 Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust? Habakkuk 1:4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted. Habakkuk 1:13 Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves? Malachi 3:15 So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.'" Treasury of Scripture Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they happy that deal very treacherously? Righteous. Jeremiah 11:20 Genesis 18:25 Deuteronomy 32:4 talk. Job 13:3 Isaiah 41:21 wherefore doth. Jeremiah 5:28 Job 12:6 Job 21:7-15 deal. Jeremiah 12:6 Jeremiah 5:11 Isaiah 48:8 |