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Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted, for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted, for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

“Look,” said Jacob, “it is still broad daylight; it is not yet time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.

But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?

So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”

Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

No straw has been given to your servants, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”

Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”

Pharaoh’s officials asked him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt lies in ruins?”

No one could see anyone else, and for three days no one left his place. Yet all the Israelites had light in their dwellings.

Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find anything.

But if the ox has a habit of goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or woman, then the ox must be stoned and its owner must also be put to death.

But if it was known that the ox had a habit of goring, yet its owner failed to restrain it, he shall pay full compensation, ox for ox, and the dead animal will be his.

Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”

Then Moses said to the LORD, “Look, You have been telling me, ‘Lead this people up,’ but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have found favor in My sight.’

…maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.

But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’

‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’

“Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,

…not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—

Yet Kain will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive.”

Yet we will not have an inheritance with them across the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.”

Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.

Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.

For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.

Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.

Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.

Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds, except Hazor, which Joshua burned.

…there were still seven tribes of Israel who had not yet received their inheritance.

Was not Achan son of Zerah unfaithful regarding what was set apart for destruction, bringing wrath upon the whole congregation of Israel? Yet it was not only Achan who perished because of his sin!’”

…and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?

Then Gideon and his three hundred men came to the Jordan and crossed it, exhausted yet still in pursuit.

Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, because the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him.

Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, because the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him.

So again they inquired of the LORD, “Has the man come here yet?” And the LORD replied, “Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage.”

Yet these men were very good to us. When we were in the field, we were not harassed, and nothing of ours went missing the whole time we lived among them.

Now David had just said, “In vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs to him has gone missing, yet he has paid me back evil for good.

…and I will humiliate and humble myself even more than this. Yet I will be honored by the maidservants of whom you have spoken.”

For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

…and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.

For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”

The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.

Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today.

These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.

Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”

Yet may the LORD forgive your servant this one thing: When my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my arm, and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the LORD forgive your servant in this matter.”

Yet for the sake of His servant David, the LORD was unwilling to destroy Judah, since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.

Yet Jehu was not careful to follow the instruction of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.

By the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash, however, the priests had not yet repaired the damage to the temple.

Yet he did not put the sons of the murderers to death, but acted according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”

Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”

Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all my father’s house to be king over Israel forever. For He chose Judah as leader, and from the house of Judah He chose my father’s household, and from my father’s sons He was pleased to make me king over all Israel.

Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You.

Yet Jeroboam son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon son of David, rose up and rebelled against his master.

Were not the Cushites and Libyans a vast army with many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, He delivered them into your hand.

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his disease became increasingly severe. Yet even in his illness he did not seek the LORD, but only the physicians.

The high places, however, were not removed; the people had not yet set their hearts on the God of their fathers.

Yet the LORD was unwilling to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant He had made with David, and since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.

Yet he did not put their sons to death, but acted according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”

A large number of the people—many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun—had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah interceded for them, saying, “May the LORD, who is good, provide atonement for everyone

So this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundation of the house of God in Jerusalem, and from that time until now it has been under construction, but it has not yet been completed.”

Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is hope for Israel.

The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, for I had not yet told the Jews or priests or nobles or officials or any other workers.

We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—

Now the city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and the houses had not yet been rebuilt.

You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.

Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.

Yet none of this satisfies me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?

The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.

He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy.

Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:

Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.

…yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.

…yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.

Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.

Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.

Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?

Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.

Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life.

He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.

Yet no one stretches out his hand against a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.

…and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.

Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.

For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.

Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,

Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.