Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹² So teach [us] to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart.

¹³ Return, Jehovah: how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

¹⁴ Satisfy us early with thy loving-kindness; that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

¹⁵ Make us glad according to the days [wherein] thou hast afflicted us, according to the years [wherein] we have seen evil.

¹⁶ Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy majesty unto their sons.

¹⁷ And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us; and establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it.

²² These words Jehovah spoke to all your congregation on the mountain from the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the obscurity, with a great voice, and he added no more; and he wrote them on two tables of stone, and gave them to me.

²³ And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, and the mountain burned with fire, that ye came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

²⁴ and ye said, Behold, Jehovah our God has shewn us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God talks with man, and he lives.

²⁵ And now, why should we die? for this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more, we shall die.

²⁶ For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we, and has lived?

²⁷ Come thou near, and hear all that Jehovah our God will say; and speak thou to us all that Jehovah our God will speak to thee; and we will hear it, and do it.

²⁸ And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, when ye spoke to me; and Jehovah said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people that have spoken to thee: they have well spoken all that they have spoken.

²⁹ Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments continually, that it might be well with them and with their sons for ever!

³⁰ Go, say unto them, Get you into your tents again.

³¹ But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.

³² Take heed then to do as Jehovah your God hath commanded you: turn not aside to the right hand or to the left.

³³ In all the way that Jehovah your God hath commanded you shall ye walk, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

4 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you might seem to have failed [of it].

² For indeed we have had glad tidings presented to us, even as they also; but the word of the report did not profit *them*, not being mixed with faith in those who heard.

³ For we enter into the rest who have believed; as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest; although the works had been completed from [the] foundation of [the] world.

⁴ For he has said somewhere of the seventh [day] thus, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works:

⁵ and in this again, If they shall enter into my rest.

⁶ Seeing therefore it remains that some enter into it, and those who first received the glad tidings did not enter in on account of not hearkening to the word,

⁷ again he determines a certain day, saying, in David, 'To-day,' after so long a time; (according as it has been said before), To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

⁸ For if Jesus had brought them into rest, he would not have spoken afterwards about another day.

⁹ There remains then a sabbatism to the people of God.

¹⁰ For he that has entered into his rest, he also has rested from his works, as God did from his own.

¹¹ Let us therefore use diligence to enter into that rest, that no one may fall after the same example of not hearkening to the word.