⁹ for as yet you have not come to the ^(A)rest^[a] and the inheritance which the Lord your God is giving you.

The Promise of Rest

4 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, ^(A)let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. ² For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, ^[a]not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. ³ For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said:

although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. ⁴ For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: ^(C)“And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; ⁵ and again in this place: ^(D)“They shall not enter My rest.”

⁶ Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, ⁷ again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said:

⁸ For if ^[b]Joshua had ^(F)given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. ⁹ There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.

¹² Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, My people Israel; ^(A)they shall take possession of you, and you shall be their inheritance; no more shall you ^(B)bereave them of children.”

¹³ ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Because they say to you, ^(C)‘You devour men and bereave your nation of children,’ ¹⁴ therefore you shall devour men no more, nor bereave your nation anymore,” says the Lord God.

¹⁸ For thus says the Lord:

²⁰ And ^(A)those who escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, ^(B)where they became servants to him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, ²¹ to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of ^(C)Jeremiah, until the land ^(D)had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate ^(E)she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.