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Yet now be strong, Zerubbavel,' says the LORD. 'Be strong, Yehoshua, son of Yehotzadak, the Kohen Gadol. Be strong, all you people of the land,' says the LORD, 'and work, for I am with you,' says the LORD of Hosts.

For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the eretz, the sea, and the dry land;

I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn't turn to me,' says the LORD.

Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven't brought forth. From this day will I bless you.'"

Thus says the LORD of Hosts: "Many peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come;

The LORD said to me, "Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

In that day I will make the chieftains of Yehudah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Yerushalayim will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Yerushalayim.

"I have loved you," says the LORD. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?" "Wasn't Esav Ya`akov's brother?" says the LORD, "Yet I loved Ya`akov;

Yet you say, 'Why?' Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'

Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.

"Your words have been stout against me," says the LORD. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'

Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will put on. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

yet I tell you that even Shlomo in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.

Most assuredly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than Yochanan the immerser; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Don't you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren't troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.

yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."