for he is our God
    and we are the people of his pasture,(A)
    the flock under his care.

Today, if only you would hear his voice,

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For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,

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God again set a certain day, calling it “Today.” This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts.”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 4:7 Psalm 95:7,8

Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

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15 As has just been said:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts
    as you did in the rebellion.”[a](A)

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  1. Hebrews 3:15 Psalm 95:7,8

15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

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20 Here I am! I stand at the door(A) and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,(B) I will come in(C) and eat with that person, and they with me.

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20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

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Warning Against Unbelief

So, as the Holy Spirit says:(A)

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts(B)
as you did in the rebellion,
    during the time of testing in the wilderness,
where your ancestors tested and tried me,
    though for forty years they saw what I did.(C)
10 That is why I was angry with that generation;
    I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,
    and they have not known my ways.’
11 So I declared on oath in my anger,(D)
    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ (E)[a](F)

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  1. Hebrews 3:11 Psalm 95:7-11

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

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25 For “you were like sheep going astray,”[a](A) but now you have returned to the Shepherd(B) and Overseer of your souls.(C)

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  1. 1 Peter 2:25 Isaiah 53:4,5,6 (see Septuagint)

25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

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Psalm 74

A maskil[a] of Asaph.

O God, why have you rejected(A) us forever?(B)
    Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?(C)

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  1. Psalm 74:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term

74 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

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14 For this God is our God for ever and ever;
    he will be our guide(A) even to the end.

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14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

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14 “I am the good shepherd;(A) I know my sheep(B) and my sheep know me— 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father(C)—and I lay down my life for the sheep.(D) 16 I have other sheep(E) that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock(F) and one shepherd.(G)

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14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

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16 Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one.(A) Therefore God is not ashamed(B) to be called their God,(C) for he has prepared a city(D) for them.

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16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

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13 But encourage one another daily,(A) as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.(B)

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13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

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28 Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock(A) of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers.(B) Be shepherds of the church of God,[a](C) which he bought(D) with his own blood.[b](E)

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 20:28 Many manuscripts of the Lord
  2. Acts 20:28 Or with the blood of his own Son

28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

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While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.(A) Listen to him!”(B)

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While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

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