Hebrews 3 English Standard Version

Jesus Greater Than Moses

3 Therefore, holy brothers,^[a] you who share in ^(A)a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, ^(B)the apostle and high priest of our confession, ²who was faithful to him who appointed him, ^(C)just as Moses also was faithful in all God's^[b] house. ³For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. ⁴(For every house is built by someone, but ^(D)the builder of all things is God.) ⁵^(E)Now Moses was faithful in all God's house ^(F)as a servant, ^(G)to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, ⁶but Christ is faithful over God's house as ^(H)a son. And ^(I)we are his house, if indeed we ^(J)hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.^[c]

A Rest for the People of God

⁷Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

^(K)“Today, if you hear his voice,
⁸do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
    on the day of testing in the wilderness,
⁹where your fathers put me to the test
    and saw my works for ^(L)forty years.
¹⁰Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
    they have not known my ways.’
¹¹^(M)As I swore in my wrath,
    ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”

¹²Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from ^(N)the living God. ¹³But ^(O)exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by ^(P)the deceitfulness of sin. ¹⁴For we have come to share in Christ, ^(Q)if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. ¹⁵As it is said,

^(R)“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

¹⁶For ^(S)who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not ^(T)all those who left Egypt led by Moses? ¹⁷And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ^(U)whose bodies fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸And to whom did he swear that ^(V)they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? ¹⁹So we see that ^(W)they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

Footnotes

Hebrews 3:1 Or brothers and sisters; also verse 12
Hebrews 3:2 Greek his; also verses 5, 6
Hebrews 3:6 Some manuscripts insert firm to the end

Cross references

Isaiah 11-13 English Standard Version

The Righteous Reign of the Branch

11 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of ^(A)Jesse,
    and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
²And ^(B)the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,
    the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
    the Spirit of counsel and might,
    the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
³And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.
^(C)He shall not judge by ^(D)what his eyes see,
    or decide disputes by ^(E)what his ears hear,
⁴but ^(F)with righteousness he shall judge the poor,
    and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
and he shall ^(G)strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
    and ^(H)with the breath of his lips ^(I)he shall kill the wicked.
⁵Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist,
    and ^(J)faithfulness the belt of his loins.

⁶^(K)The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
    and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together;
    and a little child shall lead them.
⁷The cow and the bear shall graze;
    their young shall lie down together;
    and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
⁸The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra,
    and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.
⁹^(L)They shall not hurt or destroy
    in all ^(M)my holy mountain;
^(N)for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.

¹⁰In that day ^(O)the root of ^(P)Jesse, who shall stand as ^(Q)a signal for the peoples—of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.

¹¹^(R)In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, ^(S)from Assyria, ^(T)from Egypt, from ^(U)Pathros, from ^(V)Cush,^[a] from ^(W)Elam, from ^(X)Shinar, from ^(Y)Hamath, and from ^(Z)the coastlands of the sea.

¹²He will raise ^(AA)a signal for the nations
    and will assemble ^(AB)the banished of Israel,
and gather the dispersed of Judah
    from the four corners of the earth.
¹³^(AC)The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart,
    and those who harass Judah shall be cut off;
Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah,
    and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
¹⁴^(AD)But they shall swoop down on the shoulder of the Philistines in the west,
    and together they shall plunder ^(AE)the people of the east.
They shall put out their hand ^(AF)against ^(AG)Edom and ^(AH)Moab,
    and ^(AI)the Ammonites shall obey them.
¹⁵And the Lord will utterly destroy^[b]
    ^(AJ)the tongue of the Sea of Egypt,
and will wave his hand over ^(AK)the River^[c]
    with his scorching breath,^[d]
and strike it into seven channels,
    and he will lead people across in sandals.
¹⁶And there will be ^(AL)a highway from Assyria
    for the remnant that remains of his people,
^(AM)as there was for Israel
    when they came up from the land of Egypt.

The Lord Is My Strength and My Song

12 You^[e] will say ^(AN)in that day:
“I will give thanks to you, O Lord,
for though you were angry with me,
^(AO)your anger turned away,
that you might comfort me.

²“Behold, God is my salvation;
I will trust, and will not be afraid;
for ^(AP)the Lord God^[f] is my strength and my song,
and he has become my salvation.”

³^(AQ)With joy you^[g] will draw water from the wells of salvation. ⁴^(AR)And you will say in that day:

^(AS)“Give thanks to the Lord,
call upon his name,
^(AT)make known his deeds among the peoples,
proclaim ^(AU)that his name is exalted.

⁵^(AV)“Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously;
let this be made known^[h] in all the earth.
⁶Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
for great ^(AW)in your^[i] midst is ^(AX)the Holy One of Israel.”

The Judgment of Babylon

13 The oracle concerning ^(AY)Babylon which ^(AZ)Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

²On a bare hill ^(BA)raise a signal;
    cry aloud to them;
wave the hand for ^(BB)them to enter
    the gates of the nobles.
³I myself have commanded my consecrated ones,
    and have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger,
    my proudly exulting ones.^[j]

⁴The sound ^(BC)of a tumult is on the mountains
    as of a great multitude!
The sound of an uproar of kingdoms,
    of nations gathering together!
^(BD)The Lord of hosts is mustering
    a host for battle.
⁵^(BE)They come from a distant land,
    from the end of the heavens,
the Lord and the weapons of his indignation,
    to destroy the whole land.^[k]

⁶^(BF)Wail, for ^(BG)the day of the Lord is near;
    as destruction from the Almighty^[l] it will come!
⁷Therefore all hands will be feeble,
    and every human heart ^(BH)will melt.
⁸They will be dismayed:
    ^(BI)pangs and agony will seize them;
    ^(BJ)they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at one another;
    their faces will be aflame.

⁹Behold, ^(BK)the day of the Lord comes,
    cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,
to make the land a desolation
    and ^(BL)to destroy its sinners from it.
¹⁰^(BM)For the stars of the heavens and their constellations
    will not give their light;
^(BN)the sun will be dark at its rising,
    and the moon will not shed its light.
¹¹I will punish ^(BO)the world for its evil,
    and the wicked for their iniquity;
I will ^(BP)put an end to the pomp of the arrogant,
    ^(BQ)and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.
¹²I will make ^(BR)people more rare than fine gold,
    and mankind than the ^(BS)gold of Ophir.
¹³Therefore ^(BT)I will make the heavens tremble,
    and the earth will be shaken out of its place,
at the wrath of the Lord of hosts
    in the day of his fierce anger.
¹⁴And like a hunted gazelle,
    or like sheep with none to gather them,
^(BU)each will turn to his own people,
    and each will flee to his own land.
¹⁵Whoever is found will be thrust through,
    and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.
¹⁶^(BV)Their infants will be dashed in pieces
    before their eyes;
their houses will be plundered
    and their wives ravished.

¹⁷Behold, ^(BW)I am stirring up the Medes against them,
    who have no regard for silver
    and do not delight in gold.
¹⁸^(BX)Their bows will slaughter^[m] the young men;
    they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb;
    their eyes will not pity children.
¹⁹And Babylon, ^(BY)the glory of kingdoms,
    the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans,
will be ^(BZ)like Sodom and Gomorrah
    when God overthrew them.
²⁰^(CA)It will never be inhabited
    or lived in for all generations;
no ^(CB)Arab will pitch his tent there;
    no ^(CC)shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
²¹But ^(CD)wild animals will lie down there,
    and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there ^(CE)ostriches^[n] will dwell,
    and there wild goats will dance.
²²Hyenas^[o] will cry in its towers,
    and ^(CF)jackals in ^(CG)the pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand
    and its days will not be prolonged.

Footnotes

Isaiah 11:11 Probably Nubia
Isaiah 11:15 Hebrew devote to destruction
Isaiah 11:15 That is, the Euphrates
Isaiah 11:15 Or wind
Isaiah 12:1 The Hebrew for you is singular in verse 1
Isaiah 12:2 Hebrew for Yah, the Lord
Isaiah 12:3 The Hebrew for you is plural in verses 3, 4
Isaiah 12:5 Or this is made known
Isaiah 12:6 The Hebrew for your in verse 6 is singular, referring to the inhabitant of Zion
Isaiah 13:3 Or those who exult in my majesty
Isaiah 13:5 Or earth; also verse 9
Isaiah 13:6 The Hebrew words for destruction and almighty sound alike
Isaiah 13:18 Hebrew dash in pieces
Isaiah 13:21 Or owls
Isaiah 13:22 Or foxes