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Does a girl forget her jewellery, or a bride her wedding sash? Yet my people have forgotten me, days beyond numbering.

Right there on your clothing is the blood of the innocent poor, although you never caught them breaking and entering. Yet concerning all these things,

[ Adonai ] says: "If a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and marries another man, then if the first one marries her again, that land will be completely defiled. But you prostituted yourself to many lovers, yet you want to return to me?" says Adonai .

Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Y'hudah has not returned to me wholeheartedly; she only makes a pretense of it," said Adonai .

Therefore," Adonai says, "concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, whom I did not send, yet they say, ‘There will be neither war nor famine in this land' — it will be war and famine that will destroy those prophets.

Woe to me, mother, that you gave me birth, a man who is the object of strife and controversy throughout the land! I neither lend nor borrow, yet all of them curse me.

"For here is what Adonai says concerning the palace of the king of Y'hudah: ‘You are like Gil‘ad to me, like the peak of the L'vanon; yet I will turn you into a desert, uninhabited cities.

"I did not send these prophets; yet they ran. I did not speak to them; yet they prophesied.

Yet you, Adonai , God, have said to me, ‘Buy the field for money, and call witnesses; even as the city is being turned over to the Kasdim!'"

Here is what Adonai says: "You say that this place is a wasteland, with neither people nor animals in the cities of Y'hudah, and that the streets of Yerushalayim are desolate, without people or animals — no inhabitants. Yet there will again be heard here

At that time Yirmeyahu was mixing freely with the people, because they had not yet put him in prison.

"Yet don't be afraid, Ya‘akov my servant; don't be distressed, Isra'el. For I will save you from faraway places, and your offspring from the lands where they are held captive. Ya‘akov will return and be at peace, quiet, with no one to make him afraid.

Yet I will end Mo'av's exile in the acharit-hayamim," says Adonai . This is the judgment on Mo'av.

Let him submit absolutely; there may yet be hope.

Their visions are futile and their divination is false; they say, ‘ Adonai says,' when Adonai has not sent them; yet they hope that the word will be confirmed.

I will set my face against them — they may have escaped one fire, but the fire will consume them yet. When I set my face against them, you will know that I am Adonai .

building your platforms on every streetcorner, making your high places in every open space — and yet you aren't like a whore, because you scorn getting paid.

Yet his father, because he oppressed so cruelly, committed robbery against his brother and never did anything good among his people — he will die for his sins.

Yet the house of Isra'el says, ‘ Adonai 's way isn't fair.' House of Isra'el, is it my ways that are unfair, or your ways that are unfair?

Yet I also raised my hand and swore to them in the desert that I would not bring them into the land I was giving them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands;