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Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, says the LORD."

For thus says the LORD, "The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.

Though they say, "As the LORD lives," yet they swear falsely.

yet they did not listen to me, or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.

"Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will punish all those who are circumcised but yet uncircumcised--

Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but every one walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not."

Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I complain to thee; yet I would plead my case before thee. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

Why shouldst thou be like a man confused, like a mighty man who cannot save? Yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not."

Then the LORD said to me, "Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!

She who bore seven has languished; she has swooned away; her sun went down while it was yet day; she has been shamed and disgraced. And the rest of them I will give to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD."

Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck, that they might not hear and receive instruction.

Is evil a recompense for good? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.

Yet, thou, O LORD, knowest all their plotting to slay me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from thy sight. Let them be overthrown before thee; deal with them in the time of thine anger.

For thus says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: "'You are as Gilead to me, as the summit of Lebanon, yet surely I will make you a desert, an uninhabited city.

"As I live, says the LORD, though Coni'ah the son of Jehoi'akim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off

"I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

Yet you have not listened to me, says the LORD, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

Yet hear now this word which I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people.

Alas! that day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it.