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Your arrows are sharp, piercing your enemies’ hearts.
    The nations fall beneath your feet.

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Let your sharp arrows(A) pierce the hearts(B) of the king’s enemies;(C)
    let the nations fall beneath your feet.

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12 For they will turn and run
    when they see your arrows aimed at them.

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12 You will make them turn their backs(A)
    when you aim at them with drawn bow.

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Your arrows have struck deep,
    and your blows are crushing me.

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Your arrows(A) have pierced me,
    and your hand has come down on me.

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God brought them out of Egypt;
    for them he is as strong as a wild ox.
He devours all the nations that oppose him,
    breaking their bones in pieces,
    shooting them with arrows.

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“God brought them out of Egypt;
    they have the strength of a wild ox.
They devour hostile nations
    and break their bones in pieces;(A)
    with their arrows they pierce them.(B)

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27 The whole earth will acknowledge the Lord and return to him.
    All the families of the nations will bow down before him.

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27 All the ends of the earth(A)
    will remember and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
    will bow down before him,(B)

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13 Judah is my bow,
    and Israel is my arrow.
Jerusalem[a] is my sword,
    and like a warrior, I will brandish it against the Greeks.[b]

14 The Lord will appear above his people;
    his arrows will fly like lightning!
The Sovereign Lord will sound the ram’s horn
    and attack like a whirlwind from the southern desert.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:13a Hebrew Zion.
  2. 9:13b Hebrew the sons of Javan.

13 I will bend Judah as I bend my bow(A)
    and fill it with Ephraim.(B)
I will rouse your sons, Zion,
    against your sons, Greece,(C)
    and make you like a warrior’s sword.(D)

The Lord Will Appear

14 Then the Lord will appear over them;(E)
    his arrow will flash like lightning.(F)
The Sovereign Lord will sound the trumpet;(G)
    he will march in the storms(H) of the south,

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18 Yet I dare not boast about anything except what Christ has done through me, bringing the Gentiles to God by my message and by the way I worked among them. 19 They were convinced by the power of miraculous signs and wonders and by the power of God’s Spirit.[a] In this way, I have fully presented the Good News of Christ from Jerusalem all the way to Illyricum.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 15:19a Other manuscripts read the Spirit; still others read the Holy Spirit.
  2. 15:19b Illyricum was a region northeast of Italy.

18 I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles(A) to obey God(B) by what I have said and done— 19 by the power of signs and wonders,(C) through the power of the Spirit of God.(D) So from Jerusalem(E) all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.(F)

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So God’s message continued to spread. The number of believers greatly increased in Jerusalem, and many of the Jewish priests were converted, too.

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So the word of God spread.(A) The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly,(B) and a large number of priests became obedient to the faith.

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But many of the people who heard their message believed it, so the number of men who believed now totaled about 5,000.

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But many who heard the message believed; so the number of men who believed grew(A) to about five thousand.

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42 “How I wish today that you of all people would understand the way to peace. But now it is too late, and peace is hidden from your eyes. 43 Before long your enemies will build ramparts against your walls and encircle you and close in on you from every side. 44 They will crush you into the ground, and your children with you. Your enemies will not leave a single stone in place, because you did not recognize it when God visited you.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 19:44 Greek did not recognize the time of your visitation, a reference to the Messiah’s coming.

42 and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes. 43 The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side.(A) 44 They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls.(B) They will not leave one stone on another,(C) because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming(D) to you.”

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Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!
    Your enemies cringe before your mighty power.
Everything on earth will worship you;
    they will sing your praises,
    shouting your name in glorious songs.” Interlude

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Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!(A)
    So great is your power
    that your enemies cringe(B) before you.
All the earth bows down(C) to you;
    they sing praise(D) to you,
    they sing the praises of your name.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 66:4 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 7 and 15.

54 The Jewish leaders were infuriated by Stephen’s accusation, and they shook their fists at him in rage.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 7:54 Greek they were grinding their teeth against him.

The Stoning of Stephen

54 When the members of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were furious(A) and gnashed their teeth at him.

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33 When they heard this, the high council was furious and decided to kill them.

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33 When they heard this, they were furious(A) and wanted to put them to death.

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