Your arrows are sharp, piercing your enemies’ hearts. The nations fall beneath your feet.
For they will turn and run when they see your arrows aimed at them.
The whole earth will acknowledge the Lord and return to him. All the families of the nations will bow down before him.
Your arrows have struck deep, and your blows are crushing me.
And this will be his name: ‘The Lord Is Our Righteousness.’ In that day Judah will be saved, and Israel will live in safety.
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.
Peter’s words pierced their hearts, and they said to him and to the other apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?”
Those who believed what Peter said were baptized and added to the church that day—about 3,000 in all.
But many of the people who heard their message believed it, so the number of men who believed now totaled about 5,000.
Yet more and more people believed and were brought to the Lord—crowds of both men and women.
When they heard this, the high council was furious and decided to kill them.
So God’s message continued to spread. The number of believers greatly increased in Jerusalem, and many of the Jewish priests were converted, too.
The Jewish leaders were infuriated by Stephen’s accusation, and they shook their fists at him in rage.