Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

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“Call if you will, but who will answer you?(A)
    To which of the holy ones(B) will you turn?

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15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

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15 If God places no trust in his holy ones,(A)
    if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,(B)

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18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

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18 If God places no trust in his servants,(A)
    if he charges his angels with error,(B)

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Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

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Do you listen in on God’s council?(A)
    Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?(B)
What do you know that we do not know?
    What insights do you have that we do not have?(C)
10 The gray-haired and the aged(D) are on our side,
    men even older than your father.(E)

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12 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

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12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run(A) with perseverance(B) the race marked out for us,

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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

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Paul, an apostle(A) of Christ Jesus by the will of God,(B)

To God’s holy people(C) in Ephesus,[a](D) the faithful(E) in Christ Jesus:

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 1:1 Some early manuscripts do not have in Ephesus.

21 Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

22 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.

23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.

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21 “Present your case,(A)” says the Lord.
    “Set forth your arguments,” says Jacob’s King.(B)
22 “Tell us, you idols,
    what is going to happen.(C)
Tell us what the former things(D) were,
    so that we may consider them
    and know their final outcome.
Or declare to us the things to come,(E)
23     tell us what the future holds,
    so we may know(F) that you are gods.
Do something, whether good or bad,(G)
    so that we will be dismayed(H) and filled with fear.

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41 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.

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The Helper of Israel

41 “Be silent(A) before me, you islands!(B)
    Let the nations renew their strength!(C)
Let them come forward(D) and speak;
    let us meet together(E) at the place of judgment.

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16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord.

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16 In the camp they grew envious(A) of Moses
    and of Aaron, who was consecrated to the Lord.

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But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

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I say of the holy people(A) who are in the land,(B)
    “They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.”

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And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.

Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.

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He said:

“The Lord came from Sinai(A)
    and dawned over them from Seir;(B)
    he shone forth(C) from Mount Paran.(D)
He came with[a] myriads of holy ones(E)
    from the south, from his mountain slopes.[b]
Surely it is you who love(F) the people;
    all the holy ones are in your hand.(G)
At your feet they all bow down,(H)
    and from you receive instruction,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 33:2 Or from
  2. Deuteronomy 33:2 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.