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Now Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people, for they had not yet put him into the prison.

On the second day after the murder of Gedaliah, when no one yet knew about it,

Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: 'Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.'

Yet in the latter days I will restore Moab from captivity, declares the LORD." Here ends the judgment on Moab.

Yet afterward I will restore the captivity of the Ammonites, declares the LORD.

Yet in the last days, I will restore Elam from captivity," declares the LORD.

Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:

So rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, who dwells in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.

Yet I will leave a remnant. For some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands.

"Son of man," He said to me, "do you see what they are doing-the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing-to drive Me far from My sanctuary? Yet you will see even greater abominations."

Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.'

But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.

This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, yet have seen nothing.

They see false visions and speak lying divinations. They claim, "Thus declares the LORD," when the LORD did not send them; yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.

Yet, behold, some survivors will be left in it-sons and daughters who will be brought out. They will come out to you, and when you see their conduct and actions, you will be consoled regarding the disaster I have brought upon Jerusalem-everything that I have brought upon it.

And I will set My face against them. Though they may have escaped the fire, yet another fire will consume them. And when I set My face against them, you will know that I am the LORD.

It sprouted and became a spreading vine, low in height with branches turned toward him; yet its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and yielded branches, and sent out shoots.

But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and yet escape?'

He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Seeing that he gave his hand in pledge yet did all these, he will not escape!'

Yet you may ask, 'Why should the son not bear the iniquity of the father?' Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.