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Rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Tziyon! Shout out loud, daughter of Yerushalayim! Look! Your king is coming to you. He is righteous, and he is victorious. Yet he is humble — he's riding on a donkey, yes, on a lowly donkey's colt.

"I love you," says Adonai . But you ask, "How do you show us your love?" Adonai answers, "‘Esav was Ya‘akov's brother. Yet I loved Ya‘akov

You have wearied Adonai with your words. Yet you ask, "How have we wearied him?" By saying that anyone who does wrong is good from Adonai 's perspective, and that he is delighted with them; or by asking, "Where is the God of justice?"

Can a person rob God? Yet you rob me. But you ask, ‘How have we robbed you?' In tenths and voluntary contributions.

"You have spoken strongly against me," says Adonai . "Yet you say, ‘How have we spoken against you?'

Look at the birds flying about! They neither plant nor harvest, nor do they gather food into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you worth more than they are?

yet I tell you that not even Shlomo in all his glory was clothed as beautifully as one of these.

Aren't sparrows sold for next to nothing, two for an assarion? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's consent.

Yes! I tell you that among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than Yochanan the Immerser! Yet the one who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he!

"Or haven't you read in the Torah that on Shabbat the cohanim profane Shabbat and yet are blameless?

And he told them yet another parable. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with a bushel of flour, then waited until the whole batch of dough rose."

Don't you understand yet? Don't you remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you filled?

‘These latecomers have worked only one hour, while we have borne the brunt of the day's work in the hot sun, yet you have put them on an equal footing with us!'

You will hear the noise of wars nearby and the news of wars far off; see to it that you don't become frightened. Such things must happen, but the end is yet to come.

Going on a little farther, he fell on his face, praying, "My Father, if possible, let this cup pass from me! Yet — not what I want, but what you want!"

So they left the tomb quickly, frightened yet filled with joy; and they ran to give the news to his talmidim.

and had suffered a great deal under many physicians. She had spent her life savings; yet instead of improving, she had grown worse.

because Herod stood in awe of Yochanan and protected him, for he knew that he was a tzaddik, a holy man. Whenever he heard him, he became deeply disturbed; yet he liked to listen to him.

But, aware of this, he said, "Why are you talking with each other about having no bread? Don't you see or understand yet? Have your hearts been made like stone?

When you hear the noise of wars nearby and the news of wars far off, don't become frightened. Such things must happen, but the end is yet to come.