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Jeremiah 12:1

King James Version (KJV)

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Jeremiah 12:1

Verse 1 of 17

Scripture focus

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?

Jeremiah 12:1 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Jeremiah 12:1

Theological / Devotional

When I plead. Jeremiah appears deeply perplexed over the continued prosperity of the wicked. Though at heart convinced that God is “righteous,” he cannot fully harmonize his concept of God with the facts of human experience. Other saints had grappled with the same problem, for example, Job (Job 21:7-13) and David (Ps. 73:1-12; see Introduction to Ps. 73). If, as seems likely, Jer. 12 fits chronologically between chs. 11 and 13, Jeremiah may have still been troubled over the hostility and the conspiracy of the men of Anathoth.

Happy. Literally, “at ease,” or “at rest.”

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