Contend! Contend with your mother, for she is not my wife, nor am I her husband. Let her therefore put away her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts,

Therefore behold, I will hedge your way with thorns, and wall up her wall, that she shall not find her paths.

Therefore, behold, I will lure her and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably to her.

Therefore the land shall mourn, and everyone who dwells in it shall droop, with the beasts of the field and with the birds of the heavens. Yes, the fish of the sea shall also be taken away.

Therefore I am as a moth to Ephraim, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

Therefore turn to your God; keep mercy and judgment, and wait on your God forever.

Ephraim provoked Me to anger most bitterly; therefore he shall leave his blood on him, and his Lord shall turn his reproach to him.

Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff storm-driven out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

According to their pasture, so were they filled. They were filled and their heart was lifted up. Therefore they have forgotten Me.

Therefore I will be as a lion to them; as a leopard by the way I will watch them.