Why Do Bad People Have It So Good? Jeremiah's Question

Jeremiah has been labeled "the weeping prophet".
Called at a very young age as a divine prophet of the Lord,
Jeremiah would suffer being placed in stocks, be threatened
for prophesying, be oppressed by Hananiah, imprisoned, thrown
into a cistern and forced to Egypt in flight from Babylon among
other things.
Is it any wonder Jeremiah wept? Jeremiah had something,
a lot of something to weep about.
However, in Jeremiah 12:1,2, we find him asking God a question.
Jeremiah wants to know, why does it appear that the bad guys are winning?
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You are always righteous, O GOD, when I bring a case before You.
Yet I would speak to You about Your justice:
But I do have some questions:
Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all the faithless live at ease?

You have planted them and they have taken roots.
They grow and bear fruit.
You are always on their lips but far from their hearts.
Yet, You know me, O Lord;
You see me and test my thoughts about You.
Drag them off like sheep to be butchered!
Set them apart for the day of slaughter!
How long will the land lie parched and the grass
in every field be withered?
Because those who live in it are wicked, the
animals and birds have perished.
Moreover, the people are saying, "He will
not see what happens to us."
Jeremiah 12:1,2

Why Do Bad People Have It So Good? God's Answer

Jeremiah 12:5,12-14

5.) If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out,
how can you compete with horses?
If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the
thickets by the Jordan?
12.) Over all the barren heights in the desert destroyers will swarm,
for the sword of the Lord will devour from one end of the land to the other;
no one will be safe.
13.) They will sow wheat but reap thorns;
they will wear themselves out but gain nothing.
So bear the shame of your harvest because of the Lord's
fierce anger.
14.) This is what the Lord says:
As for all my wicked neighbors who seize the inheritance
I gave my people Israel,
I will uproot them from their lands and I will uproot the house
of Judah from among them.
But after I uproot them, I will again have compassion
and will bring each of them back to his own inheritance
and his own country.

Why Do Bad People Have It So Good? Summary - They Don't, Really

The Lord gives Jeremiah the understanding
that Israel must suffer the consequences of past acts
and decisions that they made against the will of God
and nothing will change that.
So, Israel must bear the burden of punishment for their actions.
However, the Lord says to Israel, "I ain't mad at you," in fact,
I am not only going to destroy your persecutors, I am going to
restore your land and place you back in it.
But this time, you must do the right thing.
Our Lord is a forgiving God, He loves us and wants the best for us.
But when we chose to operate against the will of God,
it seems as though the bad guys are winning?

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