Study Desk

I recall this to my mind, Therefore I wait.

"The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "Therefore I wait for Him."

"Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Because you have more turmoil than the nations that surround you and have not walked in My statutes, nor executed My ordinances, nor acted in accordance with the ordinances of the nations around you,'

therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Behold, I, even I, am against you, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

'Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.

'Therefore as I live,' declares the Lord GOD, 'Because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominations, I definitely will also withdraw and My eye will have no pity, and I also will not spare.

'Moreover, they transformed the splendor of His jewels into pride, and they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them.

'Therefore, I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will take possession of their houses. I will also put an end to the pride of the strong ones, and their holy places will be profaned.

"Therefore, I indeed will deal in wrath. My eye will have no pity nor will I spare; and though they cry out in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them."

"Therefore, prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man!"

'Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: "Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of the city are the meat and this city is the pot; but I will bring you out of it.

"Therefore say, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: "Though I had removed them far away among the nations, and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary for them for a little while in the countries where they had gone."'

"Therefore say, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: "I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel."'

"Therefore say to them, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: "I will put an end to this proverb so that they will no longer use it as a proverb in Israel." But tell them, "The days are approaching as well as the fulfillment of every vision.

"Therefore say to them, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: "None of My words will be delayed any longer. Whatever word I speak will be performed,"'" declares the Lord GOD.

Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: "Because you have spoken deceit and have seen a lie, therefore behold, I am against you," declares the Lord GOD.

Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: "I will make a violent wind break out in My wrath. There will also be in My anger a flooding rain and hailstones to consume it in wrath.

Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: "Behold, I am against your magic bands by which you capture souls there as birds, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let them go, those souls whom you capture as birds.

therefore you women will no longer see deceitful visions or practice divination, and I will save My people from your hands. So you will know that I am the LORD."

"Therefore speak to them and tell them, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: "Anyone of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, puts in front of his face the stumbling block of his wrongdoing, and then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will let Myself answer him in the matter in view of the multitude of his idols,