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Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, so that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.'

You have also set up prophets to proclaim in Jerusalem concerning you, ‘There is a king in Judah!' And now it will be reported to the king according to these words. So come, therefore, and let us confer together."

Therefore you gave them into the hands of their enemies, who made them suffer. Then in the time of their suffering they cried out to you and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them saviors who saved them from the hands of their enemies.

Many years you were patient with them, and warned them by your spirit through your prophets; yet they would not listen. Therefore you handed them over to the peoples of the lands.

"Now therefore, our God—the great and mighty and awesome God, keeping covenant and steadfast love—do not treat lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, upon our kings, our officials, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until today.

Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the open towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, a holiday on which they send gifts of food to one another.

Therefore these days are called Purim, from the word Pur. Thus because of all that was written in this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had happened to them,

"How happy is the one whom God reproves; therefore do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.

"Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

It is all one; therefore I say, he destroys both the blameless and the wicked.

Since you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.

There was nothing left after they had eaten; therefore their prosperity will not endure.

Therefore snares are around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you,

Therefore you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?

Therefore I am terrified at his presence; when I consider, I am in dread of him.

Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answered: "I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.

Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me; let me also declare my opinion.'

"Therefore, hear me, you who have sense, far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.

Will he then pay back to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know.