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Alas! For that day is great, there is none like it. And it is a time of distress for Jacob, yet from it he will be delivered.

Yet you have said to me, Lord Yahweh, "Buy for yourself the field with the money, and call witnesses as witness," though the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.'"

Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the last of the days," declares Yahweh. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

Yet afterward I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites," declares Yahweh.

And he said to me, "Son of man, "Do you see what they are doing—great detestable things that the house of Israel is committing here so as to drive me from my sanctuary, and yet you will see again greater detestable things."

Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Though I have removed them far away among the nations and though I have scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary to them for a little while in the countries to which they have gone.'"

Therefore speak with them, and you must say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Every person from the house of Israel who brings up his idols into his heart and places before himself a stumbling block of his guilt and yet he comes to the prophet, I Yahweh, I will respond to him through this act with respect to the multitude of his idols,

For each person from the house of Israel, and from the alien who dwells as an alien in Israel, who separates himself from following me and brings up his idols into his heart and places before himself a stumbling block of his guilt, and yet he comes to the prophet to consult him concerning me, I Yahweh will answer him myself.

And I will set my face against them. From the fire they mayescape, but the fire will yet consume them, and they will know that I am Yahweh when I set my face against them.

when you built your mound at the head of every street and your high place you made on every street, yet you were not like a prostitute, as you were scorning your harlot's wages.

And he despised the oath to break covenant. And, look, he gave his hand in pledge, and yet he did all of these things. He will not escape.'

"Yet you say, ‘Why does the son not bear the guilt of the father?' And since the son does justice and righteousness and he keeps all of my statutes and does them, he shall surely live!

"Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair!' Listen, now, house of Israel, is my way not fair? Is it not your ways that are not fair?

And yet they, the house of Israel, say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair!' Are not my ways fair, house of Israel? Are not your ways unfair?

"And though Oholibah her sister saw, yet in her lust she behaved more corruptly than her, and her whoring was more than the prostitution of her sister.

Yet she increased her whorings, recalling the days of her childhood when she was prostituted in the land of Egypt.

To whom could you be compared, whether in glory or in majesty among the trees of Eden? And yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below; in the midst of the uncircumcised you will lie with those who died by the sword. That is Pharaoh and his entire crowd!" declares the Lord Yahweh.

"Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair!' yet their way is not fair.

Yet you said, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair!' I will judge you, house of Israel, each person according to his ways."

Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "You eat blood in your meat, and you raise your eyes to your idols and you pour out blood, and yet you want to take possession of the land?