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Who has heard anything like this? Who has seen anything like these things? Can a land be born in one day? Or can a nation be born in a moment? Yet when she was in labor, Zion indeed gave birth to her children.

Yet I planted you as a choice vine, all of it a seed of trustworthiness. How then have you altered before me into something that is degenerate, the foreign vine?

Can a young woman forget her ornaments? Or a bride her sashes? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

yet you say, ‘But I am innocent, surely his anger has turned away from me.' Look, I am entering into judgment with you because of your saying, ‘I have not sinned.'

Therefore rain showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come. Yet you have the forehead of a woman prostitute, you refuse to be ashamed.

And I saw that for this very reason, that on account of apostate Israel committing adultery I divorced her and gave the letter of divorce to her. Yet her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid and she went and prostituted herself also.

Yet even in all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense," declares Yahweh.

For thus says Yahweh, "All of the land will be a desolation, yet I will not make a complete desolation.

Yet they did not obey, and they did not incline their ear, but they walked in their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and they became worse instead of better.

Yet they have not listened to me and they have not inclined their ear, but they have hardened their neck, they did more evil than their ancestors.

Therefore thus says Yahweh, "I am about to bring on them disaster from which they will not be able to escape. Though they cry out to me, yet I will not listen to them.

Why should you be like a confused man, like a warrior who is not able to help? Yet you are in our midst, O Yahweh, and your name is called upon us. You must not leave us!

Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophecy in my name though I have not sent them, yet they are saying, "Sword and famine will not be in this land." "By the sword and by the famine those prophets will perish.

Can a human make for himself gods? Yet they are not gods!"

Yet they did not listen, and they did not incline their ear, and they hardened their neck so as to not hear, nor to receive discipline.

Should good be repaid in place of evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember my standing before you to speak good for them, to avert your wrath from them.

Yet, O Yahweh of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have revealed my legal case.

I have not sent the prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

‘Yet you have not listened to me,' declares Yahweh, ‘so that you have provoked me to anger with the work of your hands for your own harm.'

But the nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and will serve him, yet will I leave it on its land," declares Yahweh, "and they will till it, and they will live in it."'"