He said, “I have been zealous-zealous for YHWH, the God of Armies. The children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left. They are seeking to take away my life.”
Acts 17:16 - Y'all Version Bible While Paul waited for them in Athens, his spirit was churning within him because 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. |
He said, “I have been zealous-zealous for YHWH, the God of Armies. The children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left. They are seeking to take away my life.”
He said, “I have been zealous-zealous for YHWH, the God of Armies. The children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left. They are seeking to take away my life.”
Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don’t observe your law. TZADHE
I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don’t observe your word.
For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
If I say that I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.
But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of YHWH, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.
When he had looked around at them in anger, grieved at the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
Those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and then they left after receiving instructions for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible.
(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking and listening to something new.)
For while I walked around and observed y’all’s objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: ‘to an unknown god.’ Therefore, what y’all worship in ignorance, this I am proclaim to y’all.
And now, bound by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,
So when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it best to stay in Athens alone.
and if ʜᴇ rescued righteous Lot, who was distressed by the lifestyle of sensuality of the lawless