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"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.

"Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness, Do not let all the hardship seem insignificant before You, Which has come upon us, our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers and on all Your people, From the days of the kings of Assyria to this day.

But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were; therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.

Therefore the Jews of the rural areas, who live in the rural towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a holiday for rejoicing and feasting and sending portions of food to one another.

Therefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. And because of the instructions in this letter, both what they had seen in this regard and what had happened to them,

"For then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; 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 the guiltless and the wicked.'

"For You have kept their heart from understanding, Therefore You will not exalt them.

"Therefore my disquieting thoughts make me respond, Even because of my inward agitation.

"Nothing remains for him to devour, Therefore his prosperity does not endure.

"Therefore snares surround you, And sudden dread terrifies you,

"Therefore, I would be dismayed at His presence; When I consider, I am terrified of Him.

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

"Therefore my harp is turned to mourning, And my flute to the sound of those who weep.

So Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite spoke out and said, "I am young in years and you are old; Therefore I was shy and afraid to tell you what I think.

"Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wickedness, And from the Almighty to do wrong.

"Therefore He knows their works, And He overthrows them in the night, And they are crushed.

"Shall He recompense on your terms, because you have rejected it? For you must choose, and not I; Therefore declare what you know.

"Therefore men fear Him; He does not regard any who are wise of heart."