“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.”

‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand,
Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.”

Therefore I retract,
And I repent in dust and ashes.”

Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will pray for you. For I will accept him so that I may not do with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.”

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

Now therefore, O kings, show discernment;
Take warning, O judges of the earth.

Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices;
My flesh also will dwell securely.

Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness,
According to the cleanness of my hands in His eyes.

Therefore I will give thanks to You among the nations, O Lord,
And I will sing praises to Your name.

Good and upright is the Lord;
Therefore He instructs sinners in the way.

The Lord is my strength and my shield;
My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped;
Therefore my heart exults,
And with my song I shall thank Him.

Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found;
Surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him.

O my God, my soul is in despair within me;
Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

You are fairer than the sons of men;
Grace is poured upon Your lips;
Therefore God has blessed You forever.

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of joy above Your fellows.

I will cause Your name to be remembered in all generations;
Therefore the peoples will give You thanks forever and ever.

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change
And though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea;

Therefore pride is their necklace;
The garment of violence covers them.

Therefore his people return to this place,
And waters of abundance are drunk by them.

Therefore the Lord heard and was full of wrath;
And a fire was kindled against Jacob
And anger also mounted against Israel,

“Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him securely on high, because he has known My name.

“Therefore I swore in My anger,
Truly they shall not enter into My rest.”

Therefore He said that He would destroy them,
Had not Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him,
To turn away His wrath from destroying them.

Therefore He swore to them
That He would cast them down in the wilderness,

Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against His people
And He abhorred His inheritance.

Therefore He humbled their heart with labor;
They stumbled and there was none to help.

He will drink from the brook by the wayside;
Therefore He will lift up His head.

Because He has inclined His ear to me,
Therefore I shall call upon Him as long as I live.

The Lord is for me among those who help me;
Therefore I will look with satisfaction on those who hate me.

From Your precepts I get understanding;
Therefore I hate every false way.

You have removed all the wicked of the earth like dross;
Therefore I love Your testimonies.

Therefore I love Your commandments
Above gold, yes, above fine gold.

Therefore I esteem right all Your precepts concerning everything,
I hate every false way.

Pe.
Your testimonies are wonderful;
Therefore my soul observes them.

Your word is very pure,
Therefore Your servant loves it.

O that You would slay the wicked, O God;
Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.

Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me;
My heart is appalled within me.

Therefore his calamity will come suddenly;
Instantly he will be broken and there will be no healing.

“Therefore I have come out to meet you,
To seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you.

Now therefore, my sons, listen to me,
And pay attention to the words of my mouth.

“Now therefore, O sons, listen to me,
For blessed are they who keep my ways.

He who goes about as a slanderer reveals secrets,
Therefore do not associate with a gossip.

Therefore I completely despaired of all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun.

Do not be hasty in word or impulsive in thought to bring up a matter in the presence of God. For God is in heaven and you are on the earth; therefore let your words be few.

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men among them are given fully to do evil.

“Your oils have a pleasing fragrance,
Your name is like purified oil;
Therefore the maidens love you.

Therefore the Lord God of hosts,
The Mighty One of Israel, declares,
“Ah, I will be relieved of My adversaries
And avenge Myself on My foes.

Therefore the Lord will afflict the scalp of the daughters of Zion with scabs,
And the Lord will make their foreheads bare.”

Therefore My people go into exile for their lack of knowledge;
And their honorable men are famished,
And their multitude is parched with thirst.

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat and opened its mouth without measure;
And Jerusalem’s splendor, her multitude, her din of revelry and the jubilant within her, descend into it.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble
And dry grass collapses into the flame,
So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust;
For they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts
And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.

“Now therefore, behold, the Lord is about to bring on them the strong and abundant waters of the Euphrates,
Even the king of Assyria and all his glory;
And it will rise up over all its channels and go over all its banks.

Therefore the Lord raises against them adversaries from Rezin
And spurs their enemies on,

Therefore the Lord does not take pleasure in their young men,
Nor does He have pity on their orphans or their widows;
For every one of them is godless and an evildoer,
And every mouth is speaking foolishness.
In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away
And His hand is still stretched out.

Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, will send a wasting disease among his stout warriors;
And under his glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.

Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts, “O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear the Assyrian who strikes you with the rod and lifts up his staff against you, the way Egypt did.

Therefore you will joyously draw water
From the springs of salvation.

Therefore all hands will fall limp,
And every man’s heart will melt.

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,
And the earth will be shaken from its place
At the fury of the Lord of hosts
In the day of His burning anger.

Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out,
Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;
His soul trembles within him.

Therefore the abundance which they have acquired and stored up
They carry off over the brook of Arabim.

Therefore Moab will wail; everyone of Moab will wail.
You will moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth
As those who are utterly stricken.

Therefore I will weep bitterly for Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah;
I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh;
For the shouting over your summer fruits and your harvest has fallen away.

Therefore my heart intones like a harp for Moab
And my inward feelings for Kir-hareseth.

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered the rock of your refuge.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine slips of a strange god.

Therefore I say, “Turn your eyes away from me,
Let me weep bitterly,
Do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing,
To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth.

Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live in it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.

Therefore glorify the Lord in the east,
The name of the Lord, the God of Israel,
In the coastlands of the sea.

Therefore a strong people will glorify You;
Cities of ruthless nations will revere You.

The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise;
Therefore You have punished and destroyed them,
And You have wiped out all remembrance of them.

Therefore through this Jacob’s iniquity will be forgiven;
And this will be the full price of the pardoning of his sin:
When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones;
When Asherim and incense altars will not stand.

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off;
Women come and make a fire with them,
For they are not a people of discernment,
Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them.
And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

Therefore, hear the word of the Lord, O scoffers,
Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,

Therefore thus says the Lord God,
“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone,
A costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed.
He who believes in it will not be disturbed.

Therefore behold, I will once again deal marvelously with this people, wondrously marvelous;
And the wisdom of their wise men will perish,
And the discernment of their discerning men will be concealed.”

Therefore thus says the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob:
“Jacob shall not now be ashamed, nor shall his face now turn pale;

“Therefore the safety of Pharaoh will be your shame
And the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation.

Even Egypt, whose help is vain and empty.
Therefore, I have called her
“Rahab who has been exterminated.”

Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel,
“Since you have rejected this word
And have put your trust in oppression and guile, and have relied on them,