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Therefore Yahweh waits with longing to be gracious to you,And therefore He is on high to have compassion on you.For Yahweh is a God of justice;How blessed are all those who wait for Him.

Perhaps Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore, lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left.'"

Because of your raging against MeAnd because your presumptuousness has come up to My ears,Therefore I will put My hook in your noseAnd My bridle in your lips,And I will turn you back by the way which you came.

"Therefore, thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield or throw up a siege ramp against it.

Therefore I declared them to you long ago,Before they happened I caused them to be heard by you,Lest you say, ‘My idol has done them,And my graven image and my molten image have commanded them.'

Even now Lord Yahweh helps Me,Therefore, I am not dishonored;Therefore, I have set My face like flint,And I know that I will not be ashamed.

Therefore, now, listen to this, you afflicted,Who are drunk, but not with wine:

Therefore My people shall know My name; therefore in that day I am the one who is speaking, ‘Here I am.'"

Therefore, I will divide for Him a portion with the many,And He will divide the spoil with the strong;Because He poured out His soul to death,And was numbered with the transgressors;Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,And interceded for the transgressors.

You were tired out by the length of your road,Yet you did not say, ‘It is hopeless.'You found renewed strength;Therefore you did not faint.

Therefore justice is far from us,And righteousness does not overtake us;We hope for light, but behold, darkness,For brightness, but we walk in thick darkness.

But they rebelledAnd grieved His Holy Spirit;Therefore He turned Himself to become their enemy;He fought against them.

Both their own iniquities and the iniquities of their fathers together," says Yahweh."Because they have burned incense on the mountainsAnd reproached Me on the hills,Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom."

Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh,"Behold, My slaves will eat, but you will be hungry.Behold, My slaves will drink, but you will be thirsty.Behold, My slaves will be glad, but you will be put to shame.

"Therefore I will yet contend with you," declares Yahweh,"And with your sons' sons I will contend.

Your own evil will chastise you,And your acts of faithlessness will reprove you;Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitterFor you to forsake Yahweh your God,And the dread of Me is not in you," declares Lord Yahweh of hosts.

How well you prepare your wayTo seek love!Therefore even the wicked womenYou have taught your ways.

Therefore the showers have been withheld,And the late rain has not come.Yet you had a harlot's forehead;You refused to feel dishonor.

Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down;A wolf of the deserts will devastate them;A leopard is watching their cities.Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in piecesBecause their transgressions are many;Their acts of faithlessness are mighty.

Therefore, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts,"Because you have spoken this word,Behold, I am making My words in your mouth fireAnd this people wood, and it will devour them.