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at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me for ever; yet thou didst bring up my life from the Pit, O LORD my God.

Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he cried, "Yet forty days, and Nin'eveh shall be overthrown!"

Who knows, God may yet repent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we perish not?"

And he prayed to the LORD and said, "I pray thee, LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repentest of evil.

Its heads give judgment for a bribe, its priests teach for hire, its prophets divine for money; yet they lean upon the LORD and say, "Is not the LORD in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us."

Yet she was carried away, she went into captivity; her little ones were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.

yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

those who bow down on the roofs to the host of the heavens; those who bow down and swear to the LORD and yet swear by Milcom;

"Thus says the LORD of hosts: This people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD."

Yet now take courage, O Zerub'babel, says the LORD; take courage, O Joshua, son of Jehoz'adak, the high priest; take courage, all you people of the land, says the LORD; work, for I am with you, says the LORD of hosts,

I smote you and all the products of your toil with blight and mildew and hail; yet you did not return to me, says the LORD.

Is the seed yet in the barn? Do the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree still yield nothing? From this day on I will bless you."

"Thus says the LORD of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, even the inhabitants of many cities;

Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and with their children they shall live and return.

"I have loved you," says the LORD. But you say, "How hast thou loved us?" "Is not Esau Jacob's brother?" says the LORD. "Yet I have loved Jacob

Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished; for I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name is feared among the nations.

You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, "How have we wearied him?" By saying, "Every one who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them." Or by asking, "Where is the God of justice?"

Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How are we robbing thee?' In your tithes and offerings.

"Your words have been stout against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, 'How have we spoken against thee?'

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?