⁷ After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today (as he had said before), Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart,

⁷ And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,

⁸ Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,

⁷ For he is our God; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice!

¹⁵ As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.

²⁵ And they went away, for there was a division among them after Paul had said this one thing: Well did the Holy Spirit say by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers,

²⁰ And after these things he gave them judges, till the time of Samuel the prophet.

²¹ Then at their request for a king, God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the family of Benjamin, who was their king for forty years.

²² And having put him on one side, he made David their king, to whom he gave witness, saying, I have taken David, the son of Jesse, a man dear to my heart, who will do all my pleasure.

²³ From this man's seed has God given to Israel a Saviour, even Jesus, as he gave his word;

³¹ He, having knowledge of the future, was talking of the coming again of Christ from the dead, that he was not kept in hell and his body did not see destruction.

²⁹ My brothers, I may say to you openly that David came to his death, and was put in the earth, and his resting-place is with us today.

⁴² For David himself says in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Take your seat at my right hand,

³⁶ David himself said in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put those who are against you under your feet.

⁴³ He says to them, How then does David in the Spirit give him the name of Lord, saying,

¹ In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started.

¹ Now these are the last words of David. David, the son of Jesse, says, the man who was lifted up on high, the man on whom the God of Jacob put the holy oil, the loved one of Israel's songs, says:

² The spirit of the Lord had voice through me, his word was on my tongue.