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But if you will turn to Me and keep My commandments, and do them, though you were cast out to the outermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to set My name there.

And the rulers did not know where I had gone, or what I was doing. Nor had I told it yet to the Jews, or to the priests, or to the nobles, or to the rulers, or to the rest that did the work.

yet now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers; as their sons, so are our sons; and, behold, we are bringing our sons and our daughters into bondage, to be slaves; yea, there are some of our daughters brought into bondage.And there is no power for our hand, and our fields and our vineyards are in the possession of other men.

And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers, the Jews who were sold to the nations. And will you yet sell your brothers? Or shall they be sold to us? Then they were silent, and did not find a word.

yet You in Your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud did not depart from them by day to lead them in the way, nor the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.

But many years You had patience with them, and testified against them by Your Spirit, by Your prophets. Yet they would not give ear. And You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

Did not your fathers do this, and did not our God bring all this evil on us and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by defiling the Sabbath.

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, who was beloved by his God; and God made him king over Israel. But women from other lands caused even him to sin.

Yet all this is no gain to me as long as I am seeing Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

And Esther spoke yet again before the king and fell down at his feet. And she begged him with tears to put away the evil of Haman the Agagite, and his purpose which he had plotted against the Jews.

I am not at ease, nor am I at rest; nor am I quiet; yet turmoil comes.

And it is yet my comfort; and I would exult in pain not spared; for I have not hidden the words of the Holy One.

And your beginning was small, yet your end would greatly increase.

While it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it dries out before every plant.

yet You will plunge me into the ditch, and my own clothes would abhor me.

Your hands have made me and shaped me together all around; yet You engulf me.

and after my skin has been struck off from my flesh, yet this, I shall see God,

yet his food in his belly shall be turned; the gall of asps is within him.

Yet he shall be brought to the grave, and watch shall be kept over his tomb.

Yet He filled their houses with substance; and the counsel of the wicked is far from me.