Hebrews 4:7

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.

The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.

The foundation of Yahweh’s house was laid in the fourth year, in the month Ziv.

After him, Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth Zur, made repairs to the place opposite the tombs of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty men.

So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.

for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as he spoke. Because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come on you.

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

But Solomon built him a house.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

But which of the angels has he told at any time, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?”

Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best plunder.

The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet

Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne

Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth.

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin.

The guilt of Ephraim is stored up. His sin is stored up.

He said to them, “Why do they say that the Christ is David’s son?

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build Yahweh’s house.

He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.” ’

David himself says in the book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,

“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,

he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left in Hades, and his flesh didn’t see decay.

When they didn’t agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,