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Jeremiah 12

Jer. 12:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Righteous
tsaddiyq (Hebrew #6662)
just
KJV usage: just, lawful, righteous (man).
Pronounce: tsad-deek'
Origin: from 6663
b art thou, O Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, when I plead
riyb (Hebrew #7378)
a primitive root; properly, to toss, i.e. grapple; mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e. hold a controversy; (by implication) to defend
KJV usage: adversary, chide, complain, contend, debate, X ever, X lay wait, plead, rebuke, strive, X thoroughly.
Pronounce: reeb
Origin: or ruwb {roob}
with thee: yet let me χtalk
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
with thee of thy judgments
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
: Whereforec doth the way
derek (Hebrew #1870)
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
KJV usage: along, away, because of, + by, conversation, custom, (east-)ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-)way(-side), whither(-soever).
Pronounce: deh'-rek
Origin: from 1869
of the wicked
rasha` (Hebrew #7563)
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
KJV usage: + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
Pronounce: raw-shaw'
Origin: from 7561
prosper
tsalach (Hebrew #6743)
a primitive root; to push forward, in various senses (literal or figurative, transitive or intransitive)
KJV usage: break out, come (mightily), go over, be good, be meet, be profitable, (cause to, effect, make to, send) prosper(-ity, -ous, - ously).
Pronounce: tsaw-lakh'
Origin: or tsaleach {tsaw-lay'-akh}
? wherefore are all they happy
shalah (Hebrew #7951)
a primitive root; to be tranquil, i.e. secure or successful
KJV usage: be happy, prosper, be in safety.
Pronounce: shaw-law'
Origin: or shalav (Job 3:26) {shaw-lav'}
that deal very
beged (Hebrew #899)
a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage
KJV usage: apparel, cloth(-es, ing), garment, lap, rag, raiment, robe, X very (treacherously), vesture, wardrobe.
Pronounce: behg'-ed
Origin: from 898
treacherously
bagad (Hebrew #898)
to cover (with a garment); figuratively, to act covertly; by implication, to pillage
KJV usage: deal deceitfully (treacherously, unfaithfully), offend, transgress(-or), (depart), treacherous (dealer, -ly, man), unfaithful(-ly, man), X very.
Pronounce: baw-gad'
Origin: a primitive root
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Psa. 51:4• 4Against thee, thee only, have I sinned,{HR}And have done the evil in thy sight (eyes);{HR}That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest,{HR}[And be] clear when thou judgest. (Psa. 51:4)
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Dan. 9:7• 7Thine, O Lord, is the righteousness, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their unfaithfulness in which they have been unfaithful against thee. (Dan. 9:7)
χ
or, reason the case.
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Job 21:7• 7Why do the wicked live, become old,{HR}And mighty in wealth? (Job 21:7)
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Psa. 73:3• 3For I was envious at the arrogant (fools),{HR}Seeing the peace of wicked (men). (Psa. 73:3)
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1-4:  Jeremiah, complaining of the wicked's prosperity, by faith sees their ruin.
5-6:  God admonishes him of his brethren's treachery against him;
7-13:  and laments his heritage.
14-17:  He promises to the penitent return from captivity.
Righteous.
Jer. 11:20• 20But thou, Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause. (Jer. 11:20)
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Gen. 18:25• 25Far be it from thee to do so, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that the righteous should be as the wicked—far be it from thee! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right? (Gen. 18:25)
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Deut. 32:4• 4He is the Rock, his doing is perfect:{HR}For all his ways are judgment:{HR}A God of truth without iniquity,{HR}Just and right is he. (Deut. 32:4)
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Psa. 51:4• 4Against thee, thee only, have I sinned,{HR}And have done the evil in thy sight (eyes);{HR}That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest,{HR}[And be] clear when thou judgest. (Psa. 51:4)
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Psa. 119:75,137• 75I know, Jehovah, that thy judgments [are] righteousness,{HR}And [in] faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.
 137Righteous [art] thou, Jehovah,{HR}And upright thy judgments. (Psa. 119:75,137)
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Psa. 145:17• 17Righteous [is] Jehovah in all his ways,{HR}And gracious in all his works. (Psa. 145:17)
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Dan. 9:7• 7Thine, O Lord, is the righteousness, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their unfaithfulness in which they have been unfaithful against thee. (Dan. 9:7)
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Hab. 1:13‑17• 13Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
 14And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
 15They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad:
 16therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
 17Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations. (Hab. 1:13‑17)
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Zeph. 3:5• 5The just Jehovah is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame. (Zeph. 3:5)
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Rom. 3:5‑6• 5But if our unrighteousness commend God's righteousness, what shall we say? [Is] God unrighteous who inflicteth wrath? I speak according to man.
 6Let it not be: since how shall God judge the world? (Rom. 3:5‑6)
talk.
or, reason the case.
Job 13:3• 3But I will speak to the Almighty,{HR}And I desire to plead with God; (Job 13:3)
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Isa. 41:21• 21Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forth your strong [reasons] saith the King of Jacob. (Isa. 41:21)
Wherefore doth.
Jer. 5:28• 28They are become fat, they shine, yea, they surpass in deeds of wickedness; they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, and they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not adjudge. (Jer. 5:28)
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Job 12:6• 6To the spoilers are the tents at peace,{HR}And those who provoke God have security —{HR}He who causeth God to enter into his hand. (Job 12:6)
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Job 21:7‑15• 7Why do the wicked live, become old,{HR}And mighty in wealth?
 8Their seed is established with them in their sight,{HR}And their issues before their eyes.
 9Their houses [are] peace, without fear,{HR}And the rod of God [is] not upon them.
 10His bull gendereth, and faileth not,{HR}His cow calveth, and miscarrieth not.
 11They send forth their sucklings as a flock,{HR}And their children frisk.
 12They lift [their voice] to timbrel and harp,{HR}And rejoice at the sound of a pipe.
 13They wear out their days in prosperity,{HR}And in a moment sink [to] Sheol.
 14Yet they say to God, Depart from us,{HR}For we desired not the knowledge of thy ways:
 15What [is] the Almighty that we should serve him?{HR}And what profit have we if we meet him? (Job 21:7‑15)
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Psa. 37:1,35• 1Of David.{HR}Fret not thyself because of the evildoers;{HR}Be not envious at the workers of iniquity.
 35I have seen the wicked [man] strong{HR}And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. (Psa. 37:1,35)
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Psa. 73:3‑28• 3For I was envious at the arrogant (fools),{HR}Seeing the peace of wicked (men).
 4For [there are] no pangs in their death,{HR}And their strength [is] firm (fat).
 5In the hardships of men they [are] not,{HR}And with mankind are not smitten.
 6Therefore hath pride enchained them,{HR}A garment of violence covereth them.
 7Their eyes stand out with fatness,{HR}The imaginations of their heart overflow.
 8They mock and speak wickedly of oppression;{HR}From on high they speak.
 9They set their mouth in the heavens,{HR}And their tongue walketh in the earth.
 10Therefore his people turn hither,{HR}And waters of fullness are wrung out to them.
 11And they say, How should God (El) know?{HR}And is there knowledge in the Most High?
 12Behold, these [are] wicked and prosperous forever;{HR}They increase in substance.
 13Truly in vain I have cleansed my heart{HR}And washed my hands in innocency;
 14And I was smitten all the day,{HR}And my rebuking [is] at the mornings.
 15If I have said, I will declare thus, behold,{HR}I have offended the generation of thy sons.
 16When I thought to know this,{HR}A hardship it [was] in mine eyes,
 17Until I went into the sanctuaries of God (El):{HR}I considered their end.
 18Truly thou settest them in slippery places,{HR}Thou hast caused them to fall into ruins.
 19How are they a desolation in a moment!{HR}They have passed, consumed with terrors.
 20As a dream on awaking, so, O Lord (Adonai),{HR}In arising, wilt thou despise their image.
 21For my heart was in a ferment,{HR}And I was pricked in my reins;
 22And I [was] brutish and knew nothing:{HR}A beast I was with thee.
 23Yet I [am] continually with thee:{HR}Thou hast holden my right hand.
 24By thy counsel thou wilt guide me,{HR}And after glory wilt receive me.
 25Whom have I in the heavens?{HR}And beside thee none I desire upon the earth.
 26My flesh and my heart faileth;{HR}Rock of my heart and my portion [is] God forever.
 27For, behold, those far from me shall perish;{HR}Thou hast destroyed everyone whoring from thee.
 28And as for me [it is] good to draw near to God:{HR}I have made Adonai Jehovah my refuge to declare all thy works. (Psa. 73:3‑28)
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Psa. 92:7• 7When wicked [men] spring up as grass{HR}And all the workers of iniquity flourish,{HR}[It is] for them to be destroyed forever. (Psa. 92:7)
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Psa. 94:3‑4• 3Jehovah, how long shall the wicked,{HR}How long shall the wicked triumph?
 4They prate, they speak arrogantly;{HR}All the workers of iniquity boast themselves. (Psa. 94:3‑4)
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Prov. 1:32• 32For the turning back of the simple shall slay them,{HR}And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. (Prov. 1:32)
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Hab. 1:4• 4Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth; for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. (Hab. 1:4)
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Mal. 3:15• 15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. (Mal. 3:15)
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Jer. 12:6• 6For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee. (Jer. 12:6)
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Jer. 5:11• 11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 5:11)
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Isa. 48:8• 8Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from of old thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou didst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb. (Isa. 48:8)
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Hos. 6:7• 7But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant; there have they dealt treacherously against me. (Hos. 6:7)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of thy judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?

W. Kelly Translation

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Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?