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Therefore thus says Yahweh, "I am about to bring on them disaster from which they will not be able to escape. Though they cry out to me, yet I will not listen to them.

Therefore you must not pray for this people, and you must not lift up for them a cry of entreaty, or a prayer, for I will not listen in the time of their calling to me, in the time of their trouble.

Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the people of Anathoth who seek your life, saying, "You shall not prophesy in the name of Yahweh or you will die by our hand."

Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Look, I am about to punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by the famine.

My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest. She has lifted up against me her voice; therefore I hate her.

"Therefore, you shall say to them this word, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: "Every jar must be filled with wine."' And they will say to you, ‘Do we not certainly know that every jar should be filled with wine?'

Thus says Yahweh concerning this people: "They have loved so much to wander, they have not spared their feet. Therefore Yahweh is not favorable to them, now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins."

Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophecy in my name though I have not sent them, yet they are saying, "Sword and famine will not be in this land." "By the sword and by the famine those prophets will perish.

Are there any among the idols of the nation who cause rain to pour? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not you, O Yahweh our God? Therefore, we hope in you, for you do all these things.

Therefore thus says Yahweh, "If you turn back, then I will take you back. You will stand before me. And if you utter what is precious and not what is worthless, you will be as my mouth. They will turn back to you, and you will not turn back to them.

Therefore look, days are coming,' declares Yahweh, ‘and it will no longer be said, "As Yahweh lives, who led up the Israelites from the land of Egypt,"

"Therefore look, I am about to let them know, this time I am going to let them know my power and my might, and they will know that my name is Yahweh."

"Therefore thus says Yahweh, ‘Please ask among the nations, "Who has heard the like of this?" The virgin of Israel has done something very horrible.

Therefore give their children to the famine, and hand them over to the power of the sword, and let their wives be bereaved and widows, and let their men be killed by death, their young men struck dead by the sword in the battle.

"Therefore look, days are about to come," declares Yahweh, "when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of the Slaughter.

But Yahweh is with me like a powerful warrior. Therefore my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. They will be very ashamed, for they will not achieve success. Their everlasting insult will not be forgotten.

Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah: "They will not lament for him, ‘Alas, my brother,' or ‘Alas, sister.' They will not lament for him, ‘Alas, lord,' or ‘alas, his majesty.'

Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people, "You yourselves have scattered my flock, and you have driven them away, and you do not attend to them. Look, I will punish you for the evil of your deeds," declares Yahweh.

"Therefore look, days are coming," declares Yahweh, "when they will no longer say, ‘As Yahweh lives, who led up the Israelites from the land of Egypt,'

"Therefore their way will be to them like the slippery places, they will be pushed in the darkness, and they will fall into it, for I will bring disaster on them in the year of their punishment," declares Yahweh.