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Therefore here is what the Holy One of Isra'el says: "Because you reject this word, trust in extortion and rely on deceit,

‘No!' you say, ‘We will flee on horseback!' Therefore you will surely flee. And, ‘We will ride on swift ones!' So your pursuers will be swift.

Now therefore, Adonai our God, save us from his power — so that all the kingdoms on earth will know that you are Adonai — you only."

"Therefore this is what Adonai says concerning the king of Ashur: " ‘He will not come to this city or even shoot an arrow there; he will not confront it with a shield or erect earthworks against it.

"Go and tell Hizkiyahu that this is what Adonai , the God of David your ancestor, says: ‘I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; therefore I will add fifteen years to your life.

I have declared, saved and proclaimed — not some alien god among you. Therefore you are my witnesses," says Adonai . "I am God.

Therefore I repudiated the officials of the sanctuary, delivered Ya‘akov to the curse of destruction, and subjected Isra'el to scorn.

Therefore, please hear this in your affliction, you who are drunk, but not with wine;

Therefore my people will know my name; therefore on that day they will know that I, the one speaking — here I am!"

Therefore I will assign him a share with the great, he will divide the spoil with the mighty, for having exposed himself to death and being counted among the sinners, while actually bearing the sin of many and interceding for the offenders."

He saw that there was no one, was amazed that no one interceded. Therefore his own arm brought him salvation, and his own righteousness sustained him.

Because of your shame, which was doubled, and because they cried, "They deserve disgrace," therefore in their land what they own will be doubled, and joy forever will be theirs.

I looked, but there was no one to help, and I was appalled that no one upheld me. Therefore my own arm brought me salvation, and my own fury upheld me.

Therefore this is what Adonai Elohim says: "My servants will eat, while you go hungry; my servants will drink, while you go thirsty. My servants will rejoice, while you will be ashamed.

Therefore Adonai Elohei-Tzva'ot says: "Because you people speak this way, I will make my words fire in your mouth, [Yirmeyahu,] and this people wood; so that it will devour them.

"They should be ashamed of their detestable deeds, but they are not ashamed at all; they don't know how to blush. Therefore when others fall, they too will fall; when I punish them, they will stumble," says Adonai .

Therefore thus says Adonai : "I will put obstacles in the way of this people that they will stumble over — fathers and sons, neighbors and friends, all will perish together."

Therefore, here is what Adonai Elohim says: "My anger and fury will be poured out on this place, on men, animals, trees in the fields and produce growing from the ground; and it will burn without being quenched."

Therefore, say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of Adonai their God. They won't take correction; faithfulness has perished; it has vanished from their mouths.

Therefore, the days are coming," says Adonai , "when it will no longer be called either Tofet or the Ben-Hinnom Valley, but the Valley of Slaughter — they will put the dead in Tofet, because there will be no space left [anywhere else].