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But as for me, I will look to the LORD, I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.

But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their doings.

But with an overflowing flood he will make a full end of his adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

Nin'eveh is like a pool whose waters run away. "Halt! Halt!" they cry; but none turns back.

Behold, he whose soul is not upright in him shall fail, but the righteous shall live by his faith.

But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.

The LORD within her is righteous, he does no wrong; every morning he shows forth his justice, each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.

I said, 'Surely she will fear me, she will accept correction; she will not lose sight of all that I have enjoined upon her.' But all the more they were eager to make all their deeds corrupt."

You have sown much, and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes.

how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the winevat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.

Be not like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.' But they did not hear or heed me, says the LORD.

But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, As the LORD of hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so has he dealt with us."

And I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little they furthered the disaster.

Then he said to me, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerub'babel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts.

But they refused to hearken, and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears that they might not hear.

But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as in the former days, says the LORD of hosts.

And as you have been a byword of cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you and you shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let your hands be strong."

But lo, the Lord will strip her of her possessions and hurl her wealth into the sea, and she shall be devoured by fire.

In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.

Then I said to them, "If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them." And they weighed out as my wages thirty shekels of silver.