Study Desk

Yet I will leave a remnant, in that you shall have some that escape the sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered through the countries.

For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they are yet alive: for the vision is concerning the whole multitude thereof, none shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

And he said to me, Son of man, do you see what they do? even the great disgusting things that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but you shall again see yet other great disgusting things.

He also said to me, You shall again see yet other great disgusting things which they do.

Then he said to me, Have you seen [this], O son of man? you shall again see yet greater disgusting things than these.

Therefore I will also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.

Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come.

My net also I will spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he shall not see it, though he shall die there.

Yet, look, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be carried forth, both sons and daughters: look, they shall come forth to you, and you shall see their way and their doings; and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it.

Look, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be meet for any work!

I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and waxed great, and you attained to excellent ornament; your breasts were fashioned, and your hair was grown; yet you were naked and bare.

You have prostituted also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have prostituted with them, and yet you were not satisfied.

You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of traffic, to Chaldea; and yet you were not satisfied herewith.

Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor followed their disgusting behaviors; but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.

But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that does such things? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape?

For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and look, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things; he shall not escape.

Yet you say, Why doesn't the son bear the iniquity of the father? when the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.

Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not fair. Hear now, O house of Israel: Is not my way fair? are not your ways unfair?

Yet says the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not fair. O house of Israel, are not my ways fair? are not your ways unfair?

And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her prostitutions which were more than the prostitutions of her sister.