Jeremiah 12:1
"Righteous art thou, O LORD, 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?"
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- Malachi 3:15
"And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 92:7
"When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 37:1
"Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 37:35
"I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 73:3
"For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 51:4
"Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 94:3
"LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?"
Read in chapter → - Zephaniah 3:5
"The just LORD 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."
Read in chapter → - Daniel 9:7
"O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, 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, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee."
Read in chapter → - Habakkuk 1:4
"Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth."
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