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"But I gave you also cleanness of teeth in all your citiesAnd lack of bread in all your places,Yet you have not returned to Me," declares Yahweh.

So two or three cities would wander around to another city to drink water,But would not be satisfied;Yet you have not returned to Me," declares Yahweh.

"I struck you with scorching wind and mildew;And the gnawing locust was devouringYour many gardens and vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees;Yet you have not returned to Me," declares Yahweh.

"I sent a pestilence among you after the manner of Egypt;I killed your choice men by the sword along with your captured horses,And I made the stench of your camp rise up even in your nostrils;Yet you have not returned to Me," declares Yahweh.

"I overthrew you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,And you were like a firebrand delivered from a blaze;Yet you have not returned to Me," declares Yahweh.

Therefore because you impose heavy rent on the poorAnd take a tribute of grain from them,Though you have built houses of cut stone,Yet you will not live in them;You have planted desirable vineyards, yet you will not drink their wine.

Who drink wine from sacrificial bowlsWhile they anoint themselves with the first pick of the oils,Yet they have not grieved over the destruction of Joseph.

Do horses run on rocks?Or does one plow them with oxen?Yet you have overturned justice into gallAnd the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Yet Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. So he went down to Joppa, found a ship which was going to Tarshish, and paid its fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.

Then Jonah began to go into the city, one day's walk; and he called out and said, "Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown."

Is there yet a man in the wicked house,Along with treasures of wickedness,And a short measure which is cursed?

Yet she became an exile;She went into captivity;Also her infants were dashed to piecesAt the head of every street;They cast lots for her honorable men,And all her great men were bound with fetters.

How long, O Yahweh, will I call for help,And You will not hear?I cry out to You, "Violence!"Yet You do not save.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time;It pants toward its end, and it will not lie.Though it tarries, wait for it;For it will certainly come; it will not delay.

Yet I will exult in Yahweh;I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.

And those who worship on the housetops the host of heaven,And those who worship and swear to Yahweh and yet swear by Milcom,

I struck you and every work of your hands with scorching wind, mildew, and hail; yet you did not come back to Me,' declares Yahweh.

Is the seed still in the barn? Even including the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree, it has not borne fruit. Yet from this day on I will bless you.'"

"Thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘It will yet be that peoples will come, even the inhabitants of many cities.

"I have loved you," says Yahweh. But you say, "How have You loved us?" "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" declares Yahweh. "Yet I have loved Jacob;