“As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
Acts 8:33 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: And who shall declare his generation? For his life is taken from the earth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In His humiliation He was taken away by distressing and oppressive judgment and justice was denied Him [caused to cease]. Who can describe or relate in full the wickedness of His contemporaries (generation)? For His life is taken from the earth and a bloody death inflicted upon Him. [Isa. 53:7, 8.] American Standard Version (1901) In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: His generation who shall declare? For his life is taken from the earth. Common English Bible “In his humiliation justice was taken away from him.” “Who can tell the story of his descendants” “because his life was taken from the earth?” Catholic Public Domain Version He endured his judgment with humility. Who of his generation shall describe how his life was taken away from the earth?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In humility his judgment was taken away. His generation who shall declare, for his life shall be taken from the earth? |
“As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
my mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.
Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord
to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, to make widows their spoil and to plunder orphans!
who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of their rights!
Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with affliction. When you make his life an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring and shall prolong his days; through him the will of the Lord shall prosper.
Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out himself to death and was numbered with the transgressors, yet he bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
By a perversion of justice he was taken away. Who could have imagined his future? For he was cut off from the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people.
After the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing, and the troops of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.
So the law becomes slack, and justice never prevails. The wicked surround the righteous; therefore judgment comes forth perverted.
“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate,” says the Lord of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.
The eunuch asked Philip, “About whom, may I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?”