'Yet' in the Bible

He did right in the sight of the Lord, yet not with a whole heart.

But if you do go, do it, be strong for the battle; yet God will bring you down before the enemy, for God has power to help and to bring down.”

Now in the time of his distress this same King Ahaz became yet more unfaithful to the Lord.

For a multitude of the people, even many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than prescribed. For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord pardon

Yet many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first temple, wept with a loud voice when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, while many shouted aloud for joy,

Then that Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God in Jerusalem; and from then until now it has been under construction and it is not yet completed.’

For we are slaves; yet in our bondage our God has not forsaken us, but has extended lovingkindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us reviving to raise up the house of our God, to restore its ruins and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

The officials did not know where I had gone or what I had done; nor had I as yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials or the rest who did the work.

Thus in Judah it was said,“The strength of the burden bearers is failing,Yet there is much rubbish;And we ourselves are unableTo rebuild the wall.”

Now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our children like their children. Yet behold, we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters are forced into bondage already, and we are helpless because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

Now that which was prepared for each day was one ox and six choice sheep, also birds were prepared for me; and once in ten days all sorts of wine were furnished in abundance. Yet for all this I did not demand the governor’s food allowance, because the servitude was heavy on this people.

And admonished them in order to turn them back to Your law.Yet they acted arrogantly and did not listen to Your commandments but sinned against Your ordinances,By which if a man observes them he shall live.And they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck, and would not listen.

“However, You bore with them for many years,And admonished them by Your Spirit through Your prophets,Yet they would not give ear.Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

Did not your fathers do the same, so that our God brought on us and on this city all this trouble? Yet you are adding to the wrath on Israel by profaning the sabbath.”

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin regarding these things? Yet among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless the foreign women caused even him to sin.

Esther had not yet made known her kindred or her people, even as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther did what Mordecai told her as she had done when under his care.

Yet all of this does not satisfy me every time I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

‘Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them?They die, yet without wisdom.’

“Desist now, let there be no injustice;Even desist, my righteousness is yet in it.

“Though your beginning was insignificant,Yet your end will increase greatly.

“While it is still green and not cut down,Yet it withers before any other plant.

“He will yet fill your mouth with laughterAnd your lips with shouting.

Yet You would plunge me into the pit,And my own clothes would abhor me.

‘According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty,Yet there is no deliverance from Your hand.

‘Yet these things You have concealed in Your heart;I know that this is within You:

“Even after my skin is destroyed,Yet from my flesh I shall see God;

Yet his food in his stomach is changedTo the venom of cobras within him.

“Yet He filled their houses with good things;But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

“From the city men groan,And the souls of the wounded cry out;Yet God does not pay attention to folly.

When the Almighty was yet with me,And my children were around me;

“Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand,Or in his disaster therefore cry out for help?

And his anger burned against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

“Indeed God speaks once,Or twice, yet no one notices it.

“Wait for me a little, and I will show youThat there is yet more to be said in God’s behalf.

Yet You have made him a little lower than God,And You crown him with glory and majesty!

Yet You are holy,O You who are enthroned upon the praises of Israel.

Yet You are He who brought me forth from the womb;You made me trust when upon my mother’s breasts.

Yet a little while and the wicked man will be no more;And you will look carefully for his place and he will not be there.

I have been young and now I am old,Yet I have not seen the righteous forsakenOr his descendants begging bread.

Why are you in despair, O my soul?And why have you become disturbed within me?Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,The help of my countenance and my God.

Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor,And do not go out with our armies.

Yet You have crushed us in a place of jackalsAnd covered us with the shadow of death.

Man in his pomp, yet without understanding,Is like the beasts that perish.

His speech was smoother than butter,But his heart was war;His words were softer than oil,Yet they were drawn swords.

You made men ride over our heads;We went through fire and through water,Yet You brought us out into a place of abundance.

But as for me, I will hope continually,And will praise You yet more and more.

Yet God is my king from of old,Who works deeds of deliverance in the midst of the earth.

That the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born,That they may arise and tell them to their children,

The sons of Ephraim were archers equipped with bows,Yet they turned back in the day of battle.

Yet they still continued to sin against Him,To rebel against the Most High in the desert.

Yet He commanded the clouds aboveAnd opened the doors of heaven;

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High GodAnd did not keep His testimonies,

As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years,Or if due to strength, eighty years,Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow;For soon it is gone and we fly away.

O Lord our God, You answered them;You were a forgiving God to them,And yet an avenger of their evil deeds.

This will be written for the generation to come,That a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.

The arrogant utterly deride me,Yet I do not turn aside from Your law.

My life is continually in my hand,Yet I do not forget Your law.

The wicked have laid a snare for me,Yet I have not gone astray from Your precepts.

I am small and despised,Yet I do not forget Your precepts.

Trouble and anguish have come upon me,Yet Your commandments are my delight.

Many are my persecutors and my adversaries,Yet I do not turn aside from Your testimonies.

“Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up;Yet they have not prevailed against me.

For though the Lord is exalted,Yet He regards the lowly,But the haughty He knows from afar.

Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;And in Your book were all writtenThe days that were ordained for me,When as yet there was not one of them.

Though He scoffs at the scoffers,Yet He gives grace to the afflicted.

While He had not yet made the earth and the fields,Nor the first dust of the world.

There is one who scatters, and yet increases all the more,And there is one who withholds what is justly due, and yet it results only in want.

Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

There is a kind who is pure in his own eyes,Yet is not washed from his filthiness.

The shephanim are not mighty people,Yet they make their houses in the rocks;

The locusts have no king,Yet all of them go out in ranks;

The lizard you may grasp with the hands,Yet it is in kings’ palaces.

All the rivers flow into the sea,Yet the sea is not full.To the place where the rivers flow,There they flow again.

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I know that one fate befalls them both.

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the fruit of my labor for which I have labored by acting wisely under the sun. This too is vanity.

He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

There was a certain man without a dependent, having neither a son nor a brother, yet there was no end to all his labor. Indeed, his eyes were not satisfied with riches and he never asked, “And for whom am I laboring and depriving myself of pleasure?” This too is vanity and it is a grievous task.

A poor yet wise lad is better than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive instruction.

All a man’s labor is for his mouth and yet the appetite is not satisfied.

But there was found in it a poor wise man and he delivered the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

Yet the fool multiplies words. No man knows what will happen, and who can tell him what will come after him?

“Yet there will be a tenth portion in it,And it will again be subject to burning,Like a terebinth or an oakWhose stump remains when it is felled.The holy seed is its stump.”

“Be broken, O peoples, and be shattered;And give ear, all remote places of the earth.Gird yourselves, yet be shattered;Gird yourselves, yet be shattered.

Yet the people do not turn back to Him who struck them,Nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.

Yet it does not so intend,Nor does it plan so in its heart,But rather it is its purpose to destroyAnd to cut off many nations.

Yet today he will halt at Nob;He shakes his fist at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

Yet gleanings will be left in it like the shaking of an olive tree,Two or three olives on the topmost bough,Four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree,Declares the Lord, the God of Israel.

O Lord, Your hand is lifted up yet they do not see it.They see Your zeal for the people and are put to shame;Indeed, fire will devour Your enemies.

Is it not yet just a little whileBefore Lebanon will be turned into a fertile field,And the fertile field will be considered as a forest?

Yet He also is wise and will bring disasterAnd does not retract His words,But will arise against the house of evildoersAnd against the help of the workers of iniquity.

Yet those who wait for the LordWill gain new strength;They will mount up with wings like eagles,They will run and not get tired,They will walk and not become weary.

So He poured out on him the heat of His angerAnd the fierceness of battle;And it set him aflame all around,Yet he did not recognize it;And it burned him, but he paid no attention.

“Yet you have not called on Me, O Jacob;But you have become weary of Me, O Israel.

“Yet you said, ‘I will be a queen forever.’These things you did not considerNor remember the outcome of them.

But I said, “I have toiled in vain,I have spent My strength for nothing and vanity;Yet surely the justice due to Me is with the Lord,And My reward with My God.”

“The children of whom you were bereaved will yet say in your ears,‘The place is too cramped for me;Make room for me that I may live here.’

Surely our griefs He Himself bore,And our sorrows He carried;Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,Smitten of God, and afflicted.

He was oppressed and He was afflicted,Yet He did not open His mouth;Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,So He did not open His mouth.

His grave was assigned with wicked men,Yet He was with a rich man in His death,Because He had done no violence,Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.