“I have been very zealous for Adonai-Tzva’ot,” he said, “for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and slain Your prophets with the sword—and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it!”
Acts 17:16 - Tree of Life Version Now while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was aroused within him when he saw that the city was full of idols. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now while Paul was awaiting them at Athens, his spirit was grieved and roused to anger as he saw that the city was full of idols. American Standard Version (1901) Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he beheld the city full of idols. Common English Bible While Paul waited for them in Athens, he was deeply distressed to find that the city was flooded with idols. Catholic Public Domain Version Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred up within him, seeing the city given over to idolatry. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now whilst Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him, seeing the city wholly given to idolatry. |
“I have been very zealous for Adonai-Tzva’ot,” he said, “for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and slain Your prophets with the sword—and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it!”
“I have been very zealous for Adonai Tzva’ot,” he said, “for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and slain Your prophets with the sword—and I alone am left, and they are seeking to take my life!”
Streams of water run down from my eyes, because they do not observe Your Torah.
I see the treacherous and loathe them, because they do not keep Your word.
I have become a stranger to my brothers, a foreigner to my mother’s children.
But if I say: “I won’t mention Him, or speak any more in His Name,” then it is like fire burning in my heart— shut up in my bones— I weary myself holding it in, but I cannot.
Nevertheless I myself am filled with power— with the Ruach Adonai— with judgment, and with might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
After looking around at them with anger, grieved by their hardness of heart, He says to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
The Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Yeshua went up to Jerusalem.
Those escorting Paul brought him as far as Athens. After receiving an order for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left.
Now all the Athenians and foreigners visiting there used to pass their time doing nothing but telling or hearing something new.
For while I was passing through and observing the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: ‘To an Unknown God.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing, this I proclaim to you.
“And now, look, bound by the Ruach, I am going to Jerusalem—not knowing what will happen to me there,
So when we could stand it no longer, we thought it best to be left behind alone in Athens.
He rescued Lot, a righteous man deeply troubled by the shameless immorality of the wicked.