Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹² To number our days aright let [us] know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

¹³ Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants.

¹⁴ Satisfy us at morn [with] Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.

¹⁵ Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein Thou hast afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.

¹⁶ Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, And Thine honour on their sons.

¹⁷ And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it!

²² `These words hath Jehovah spoken unto all your assembly, in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness -- a great voice; and He hath not added, and He writeth them on two tables of stone, and giveth them unto me.

²³ `And it cometh to pass as ye hear the voice out of the midst of the darkness, and of the mountain burning with fire, that ye come near unto me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders,

²⁴ and say, Lo, Jehovah our God hath shewed us His honour, and His greatness; and His voice we have heard out of the midst of the fire; this day we have seen that God doth speak with man -- and he hath lived.

²⁵ `And, now, why do we die? for consume us doth this great fire -- if we add to hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more -- then we have died.

²⁶ For who of all flesh [is] he who hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire like us -- and doth live?

²⁷ Draw near thou, and hear all that which Jehovah our God saith, and thou, thou dost speak unto us all that which Jehovah our God speaketh unto thee, and we have hearkened, and done it.

²⁸ `And Jehovah heareth the voice of your words, in your speaking unto me, and Jehovah saith unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken unto thee; they have done well [in] all that they have spoken.

²⁹ O that their heart had been thus to them, to fear Me, and to keep My commands all the days, that it may be well with them, and with their sons -- to the age!

³⁰ `Go, say to them, Turn back for yourselves, to your tents;

³¹ and thou here stand thou with Me, and let Me speak unto thee all the command, and the statutes, and the judgments which thou dost teach them, and they have done in the land which I am giving to them to possess it.

³² `And ye have observed to do as Jehovah your God hath commanded you, ye turn not aside -- right or left;

³³ in all the way which Jehovah your God hath commanded you ye walk, so that ye live, and [it is] well with you, and ye have prolonged days in the land which ye possess.

4 We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,

² for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,

³ for we do enter into the rest -- we who did believe, as He said, `So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- ;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,

⁴ for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh [day] thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'

⁵ and in this [place] again, `If they shall enter into My rest -- ;'

⁶ since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief --

⁷ again He doth limit a certain day, `To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,'

⁸ for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things;

⁹ there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,

¹⁰ for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own.

¹¹ May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,