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As I live, says Yahweh, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I pluck you from there;

I did not send these prophets, yet they ran: I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

Look, I am against those that prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, and tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I did not send them, nor command them; neither do they profit this people at all, says Yahweh.

Yet you haven't listened to me, says Yahweh; that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.

Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, Yet again they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity: Yahweh bless you, O habitation of righteousness, O mountain of holiness.

For this is what Yahweh of Hosts says, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land.

And they have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they haven't listened to receive instruction.

Moreover the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,

Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, whereof you say, It is waste, without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,

Thus says Yahweh of hosts: Yet again there shall be in this place, which is waste, without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

Yet hear the word of Yahweh, O Zedekiah king of Judah: thus says Yahweh concerning you, You shall not die by the sword;

For though you had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

Now since he had not yet gone back, [he said] Go back then to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a present, and let him go.

Yet I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says Yahweh. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

For thus says Yahweh 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 harvest shall come for her.

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come to her, says Yahweh.

For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.

Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them.

Yet if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.