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Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck, that they might not hear and receive instruction.

Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

Yet you, O Lord , know all their plotting to kill me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from your sight. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger.

For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah: "‘You are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, yet surely I will make you a desert, an uninhabited city.

"As I live, declares the Lord , though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off

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

Yet you have not listened to me, declares the Lord , that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

Yet hear now this word that I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people.

Alas! That day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it.

Yet you, O Lord God , have said to me, "Buy the field for money and get witnesses"—though the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.'"

Yet hear the word of the Lord , O Zedekiah king of Judah! Thus says the Lord concerning you: ‘You shall not die by the sword.

Yet neither the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words was afraid, nor did they tear their garments.

Now Jeremiah was still going in and out among the people, for he had not yet been put in prison.

Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abomination that I hate!'

Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, declares the Lord ." Thus far is the judgment on Moab.

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come."

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, yet destroyers would come from me against her, declares the Lord .

"They heard my groaning, yet there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it. You have brought the day you announced; now let them be as I am.

let him put his mouth in the dust— there may yet be hope;

And because of all your abominations I will do with you what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again.