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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, and done what is evil in thy sight; that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, 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)
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or, reason the case.
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Job 21:7• 7Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power? (Job 21:7)
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Psa. 73:3• 3For I was envious at the arrogant, seeing the prosperity of the wicked. (Psa. 73:3)
,etc.

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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 work is perfect, For all his ways are righteousness; A *God of faithfulness without deceit, Just and right is he. (Deut. 32:4)
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Psa. 51:4• 4Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in thy sight; that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, be clear when thou judgest. (Psa. 51:4)
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Psa. 119:75,137• 75I know, Jehovah, that thy Judgments are righteousness, and that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.
 137TZADE. Righteous art thou, Jehovah, and upright are thy judgments. (Psa. 119:75,137)
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Psa. 145:17• 17Jehovah is righteous in all his ways, and kind 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 mischief: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and keepest silence when the wicked swalloweth up a man more righteous than he?
 14And thou makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them.
 15He taketh up all of them with the hook, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them into his drag; therefore he rejoiceth and is glad:
 16therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth incense unto his drag; for by them his portion is become fat, and his meat dainty.
 17Shall he therefore empty his net, and not spare to slay the nations continually? (Hab. 1:13‑17)
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Zeph. 3:5• 5The righteous Jehovah is in the midst of her: he doeth no wrong. Every morning doth he bring his judgment to light; it faileth not: but the unrighteous 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 inflicts wrath? I speak according to man.
 6Far be the thought: 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, and will find pleasure in reasoning with *God; (Job 13:3)
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Isa. 41:21• 21Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forward your arguments, 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• 6The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke *God are secure; into whose hand +God bringeth. (Job 12:6)
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Job 21:7‑15• 7Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?
 8Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
 9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of +God upon them.
 10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
 11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
 12They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
 13They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol.
 14And they say unto *God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
 15What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him? (Job 21:7‑15)
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Psa. 37:1,35• 1A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, and be not envious of them that work unrighteousness;
 35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading 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, seeing the prosperity of the wicked.
 4For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished;
 5They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they plagued like other men:
 6Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them as a garment;
 7Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart:
 8They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily:
 9They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
 10Therefore his people turn hither, and waters in fulness are wrung out to them.
 11And they say, How can *God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?
 12Behold, these are the wicked, and they prosper in the world: they heap up riches.
 13Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency:
 14For all the day have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
 15If I said, I will speak thus, behold, I should be faithless to the generation of thy children.
 16When I thought to be able to know this, it was a grievous task in mine eyes;
 17Until I went into the sanctuaries of *God; then understood I their end.
 18Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.
 19How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors.
 20As a dream, when one awaketh, wilt thou, Lord, on arising despise their image.
 21When my heart was in a ferment, and I was pricked in my reins,
 22Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was as a beast with thee.
 23Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden my right hand;
 24Thou wilt guide me by thy counsel, and after the glory, thou wilt receive me.
 25Whom have I in the heavens? and there is none upon earth I desire beside thee.
 26My flesh and my heart faileth: God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever.
 27For behold, they that are far from thee shall perish; thou destroyest every one that goeth a whoring from thee.
 28But as for me, it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord Jehovah, that I may declare all thy works. (Psa. 73:3‑28)
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Psa. 92:7• 7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed for ever. (Psa. 92:7)
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Psa. 94:3‑4• 3How long shall the wicked, O Jehovah, how long shall the wicked triumph?
 4How long shall they utter and speak insolence--all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? (Psa. 94:3‑4)
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Prov. 1:32• 32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall cause them to perish. (Prov. 1:32)
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Hab. 1:4• 4Therefore the law is powerless, and justice doth never go forth; for the wicked encompasseth the righteous; therefore judgment goeth forth perverted. (Hab. 1:4)
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Mal. 3:15• 15And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and they escape. (Mal. 3:15)
deal.
Jer. 12:6• 6For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee, even they have cried aloud after thee. Believe them not, though they speak good 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 wouldest ever deal treacherously, and thou 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?