Study Desk

On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD , though the foundation of the LORD's temple had not yet been laid.

So this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God in Jerusalem. From that day to the present it has been under construction but is not yet finished."

"What has happened to us is a result of our evil deeds and our great guilt, and yet, our God, you have punished us less than our sins have deserved and have given us a remnant like this.

The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, because as yet I had said nothing to the Jews or the priests or nobles or officials or any others who would be doing the work.

Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our countrymen and though our sons are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others."

Now the city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and the houses had not yet been rebuilt.

For many years you were patient with them. By your Spirit you admonished them through your prophets. Yet they paid no attention, so you handed them over to the neighboring peoples.

Yet having learned who Mordecai's people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai's people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes.

While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, "Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house,

The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.

"Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him,

Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face.

yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.

"Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.

yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.

And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;

yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him.

Yet they say to God, 'Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.