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Therefore I am pouring out my fury on them, consuming them with the fire of my rage, bringing their own ways on their own heads,' says Adonai Elohim ."

"Therefore, Oholivah, here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘I will raise up your lovers against you, the ones who fill you with revulsion, and bring them against you from every side —

"Therefore this is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘Because you forgot me and flung me behind your back, you will bear the guilt of your lewdness and whoring.'"

"Therefore Adonai Elohim says: ‘Woe to the city drenched with blood, to the pot whose scum is in it, and whose scum has not been removed. Empty it piece by piece, without troubling to draw lots.

"Therefore Adonai Elohim says this: ‘Woe to the city drenched with blood! I myself will make a huge bonfire,

therefore,' Adonai Elohim says, ‘I will stretch my hand out over Edom and eliminate both its humans and its animals. I will make it a ruin; from Teman to D'dan they will die by the sword.

therefore,' Adonai Elohim says, ‘I will stretch out my hand over the P'lishtim, eliminate the K'reti and destroy the rest of the seacoast peoples.

therefore, Adonai Elohim says, ‘Look, Tzor! I am against you. Just as the sea churns up its waves, I will churn up many nations against you.

"Therefore Adonai Elohim says, ‘Because you think that you think like God,

"‘When your commerce grew, you became filled with violence; and in this way you sinned. Therefore I have thrown you out, defiled, from the mountain of God; I have destroyed you, protecting keruv, from among the stones of fire.

By your many crimes in dishonest trading, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore I brought forth fire from within you, and it has devoured you; I reduced you into ashes on the ground in the sight of all who can see you.

"Therefore Adonai Elohim says, ‘I will bring the sword against you and eliminate both your people and your animals.

Therefore Adonai Elohim says, ‘I will give the land of Egypt to N'vukhadretzar king of Bavel. He will carry off its riches, take its spoil and its prey; and these will be the wages for his army.

Therefore Adonai Elohim says this: ‘I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the sound one and the broken one, and I will make the sword fall from his hand.

"Therefore here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘Because you are so tall, because he has lifted his crown above the leafy boughs, because he has grown so arrogant about his height,

"Likewise you, human being — I have appointed you as watchman for the house of Isra'el. Therefore, when you hear the word from my mouth, warn them for me.

"Therefore, you, human being, say to the house of Isra'el: ‘You say, "Our crimes and sins are weighing us down, we're pining away because of them, how can we even stay alive?"'

Therefore, tell them that Adonai Elohim says, ‘You eat [flesh] with the blood, you raise your eyes to your idols, and you shed blood — and you still expect to possess the land?

"‘Therefore, shepherds, hear the word of Adonai :

therefore, shepherds, hear the word of Adonai !