⁷ Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear --

⁷ For He `is' our God, and we the people of His pasture, And the flock of His hand, To-day, if to His voice ye hearken,

⁸ Harden not your heart as `in' Meribah, As `in' the day of Massah in the wilderness,

⁹ Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.

¹⁰ Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, `A people erring in heart -- they! And they have not known My ways:'

¹¹ Where I sware in Mine anger, `If they come in unto My rest -- !'

¹⁵ in its being said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,'

³ Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David -- that are stedfast.

¹³ O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.

⁷ again He doth limit a certain day, `To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,'

²⁰ lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

²⁷ according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,

¹¹ But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.

¹³ but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,

² The Spirit of Jehovah hath spoken by me, And His word `is' on my tongue.

¹ And working together also we call upon `you' that ye receive not in vain the grace of God --

² for He saith, `In an acceptable time I did hear thee, and in a day of salvation I did help thee, lo, now `is' a well-accepted time; lo, now, a day of salvation,' --

³ to this one the doorkeeper doth open, and the sheep hear his voice, and his own sheep he doth call by name, and doth lead them forth;

⁵ While he is yet speaking, lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, `This is My Son, -- the Beloved, in whom I did delight; hear him.'

²¹ for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

⁸ the Holy Spirit this evidencing that not yet hath been manifested the way of the holy `places', the first tabernacle having yet a standing;

¹⁶ and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock -- one shepherd.

⁶ Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near,

⁴³ He saith to them, `How then doth David in the Spirit call him lord, saying,

²⁵ `Verily, verily, I say to you -- There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live;

²⁵ And not being agreed with one another, they were going away, Paul having spoken one word -- `Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers,

¹³ Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'

¹⁴ who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

¹⁵ instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'

¹⁰ All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

¹ Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.

¹⁶ `Men, brethren, it behoved this Writing that it be fulfilled that beforehand the Holy Spirit spake through the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus,

³⁶ for David himself said in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my lord, Sit thou on My right hand, till I place thine enemies -- thy footstool;