Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”
that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
Of David. Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak
For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn,
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is pe
How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked exult?
To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem,
The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.
Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why
O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to Yo
Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.
O LORD, God of Israel, You are righteous! For we remain this day as a remnant. Here we are before You in our guilt, thou
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to Me,” declares the LORD.
Righteous are You, O LORD, and upright are Your judgments.
Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are tr
Even your brothers—your own father’s household—even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do n
Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.
“Present your case,” says the LORD. “Submit your arguments,” says the King of Jacob.
You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful
He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and uprig
But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wra
For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.
But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.
I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.