You are righteous, LORD, Mal 3:15Psa 92:7Psa 37:1Psa 37:35Psa 51:4Psa 73:3-28Dan 9:7Hab 1:4
when I contend with you;
yet I would like to plead a case with you.
Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?
You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. Isa 29:13Tit 1:16Mat 15:8Jer 11:17Ezk 17:5-10Ezk 33:31Jer 45:4Ezk 19:10-13
They grow. Yes, they produce fruit.
You are near in their mouth,
and far from their heart.
But you, LORD, know me. 2Ki 20:3Jer 17:18Psa 139:1-4Jas 5:5Psa 17:3Jer 50:27Psa 139:23Psa 26:1
You see me, and test my heart toward you.
Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
How long will the land mourn, Jer 9:10Psa 107:34Hos 4:3Jer 4:25Jer 23:10Jer 5:31Jer 7:20Rom 8:22
and the herbs of the whole country wither?
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein,
the animals and birds are consumed;
because they said,
“He won’t see our latter end.”
“If you have run with the footmen, 1Pe 4:12Pro 24:10Heb 12:3-4Jer 49:19Jer 50:44Psa 42:7Psa 69:1-2Pro 3:11
and they have wearied you,
then how can you contend with horses?
Though in a land of peace you are secure,
yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
For even your brothers, and the house of your father, Pro 26:25Jer 9:4Psa 12:2Gen 37:4-11Mic 7:5-6Mat 10:21Jer 11:19Jer 11:21
even they have dealt treacherously with you!
Even they have cried aloud after you!
Don’t believe them,
though they speak beautiful words to you.
“I have forsaken my house. Isa 2:6Psa 78:59-60Jer 11:15Hos 9:15Lam 2:1-22Ezk 24:21Ezk 7:20-21Jer 51:5
I have cast off my heritage.
I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest. Amo 6:8Hos 9:15Zec 11:8Jer 2:15Jer 51:38
She has uttered her voice against me.
Therefore I have hated her.
Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? Isa 56:9Jer 7:332Ki 24:2Ezk 23:22-25Rev 19:17-18Ezk 16:36-37Ezk 39:17-20Jer 15:3
Are the birds of prey against her all around?
Go, assemble all the animals of the field.
Bring them to devour.
Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. Isa 5:1-7Isa 63:18Jer 23:1Jer 3:19Jer 6:3Luk 20:9-16Psa 80:8-16Isa 43:28
They have trodden my portion under foot.
They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
They have made it a desolation. Isa 42:25Jer 23:10Jer 14:2Ecc 7:2Isa 57:1Jer 10:22Jer 10:25Jer 12:4-8
It mourns to me, being desolate.
The whole land is made desolate,
because no one cares.
Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; Amo 9:4Jer 47:6Ezk 14:17Isa 34:6Ezk 5:2Isa 57:21Isa 66:15-16Jer 15:2
for the sword of the LORD devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land.
No flesh has peace.
They have sown wheat, Deu 28:38Hag 1:6Mic 6:15Isa 55:2Lev 26:16Hab 2:13Jer 25:37-38Jer 4:26
and have reaped thorns.
They have exhausted themselves,
and profit nothing.
You will be ashamed of your fruits,
because of the LORD’s fierce anger.”
The LORD says, “Concerning all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them. Jer 3:18Zec 2:8Jer 49:7Zec 10:6-12Zep 2:8-10Deu 30:3Ezk 25:1-17Isa 11:11-16 It will happen that after I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them. I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land. Jer 49:6Jer 48:47Jer 49:39Amo 9:14Deu 30:3Deu 3:20Isa 23:17-18Num 32:18 It will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As the LORD lives;’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the middle of my people. Jer 4:2Jos 23:7Zep 1:5Deu 10:20-21Jer 3:17Zec 2:11Eph 2:19-22Isa 45:23 But if they will not hear, then I will pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it,” says the LORD. Isa 60:12Psa 2:8-121Pe 2:6-82Th 1:8Dan 11:4Dan 7:4-8Ezk 19:12Jer 12:14-17