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Like a cage full of birds,So their houses are full of deceit;Therefore they have become great and rich.

Therefore hear, O nations,And know, O congregation, what is among them.

Therefore, thus says Yahweh,"Behold, I am laying stumbling blocks before this people.And they will stumble against them,Fathers and sons together;Neighbor and friend will perish."

therefore, I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave you and your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, "Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched."

"Therefore, behold, days are coming," declares Yahweh, "when it will no longer be called Topheth or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of the Slaughter; for they will bury in Topheth because there is no other place.

Therefore I will give their wives to others,Their fields to new possessors,Because from the least even to the greatestEveryone is greedy for gain;From the prophet even to the priestEveryone practices lying.

Were they ashamed because of the abomination they had done?They certainly were not ashamed,And they did not know how to feel dishonor;Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;At the time of their punishment they shall be brought down,"Says Yahweh.

Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts,"Behold, I will refine them and test them;For what else can I do, because of the daughter of My people?

therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

For the shepherds have become senselessAnd have not sought Yahweh;Therefore they have not prospered,And all their flock is scattered.

Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but walked, each one, in the stubbornness of his evil heart; therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.'"

Therefore thus says Yahweh, "Behold, I am bringing calamity on them which they will not be able to get out of; and they will cry to Me, yet I will not listen to them.

Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, "Do not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, so that you will not die at our hand";

therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, "Behold, I am about to punish them! The choice men will die by the sword; their sons and daughters will die by famine;

My inheritance has become to MeLike a lion in the forest;She has given forth its voice against Me;Therefore I have come to hate her.

"Therefore you are to say this word to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "Every jug is to be filled with wine."' And they will say to you, ‘Do we not very well know that every jug is to be filled with wine?'

Therefore I will scatter them like chaff passing awayInto the wilderness wind.

Thus says Yahweh to this people, "Even so they have loved to wander; they have not kept their feet in check. Therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins."

Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I who sent them—yet they keep saying, ‘There will be no sword or famine in this land'—by that sword and famine those prophets shall meet their end!