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

你的箭锋快，射中王敌之心；万民仆倒在你以下。

你的箭锋快，射中王的仇敌的心，万民仆倒在你之下。

你的箭锋快，射中王的仇敌的心，万民仆倒在你之下。

你的利箭刺穿敌人的心窝，列国臣服在你脚下。

你的箭锐利，射中了王的仇敌的心；万民都仆倒在你脚下。

你的箭矢尖锐，射入王的仇敌的心；万民都仆倒在你之下。

你的箭鋒快，射中王敵之心；萬民仆倒在你以下。

你的箭鋒快，射中王的仇敵的心，萬民仆倒在你之下。

你的箭鋒快，射中王的仇敵的心，萬民仆倒在你之下。

你的利箭刺穿敵人的心窩，列國臣服在你腳下。

你的箭銳利，射中了王的仇敵的心；萬民都仆倒在你腳下。

你的箭鋒很快，射中了王仇敵的心；眾外族民都仆倒於你之下。

你的箭矢尖銳，射入王的仇敵的心；萬民都仆倒在你之下。

爾矢銛利、穿王敵之心、眾民仆於爾下兮、

爾鏃甚利、勝異邦人、刺敵之心兮、

爾箭甚利、射中王敵之心、萬族必伏於爾下、

赫然驅車出。所向誰能當。右手施奇蹟。戡亂如探囊。

Let your sharp arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s enemies; let the nations fall beneath your feet.

Shoot your sharp arrows into the hearts of your enemies. Let the nations come under your control.

Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; the peoples fall under you.

Your sharpened arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s enemies; the peoples fall under you.

Your arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under You; Your arrows are in the heart of the King’s enemies.

Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King’s enemies; The peoples fall under You.

Thine arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under thee; They are in the heart of the king’s enemies.

Your arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s enemies; the peoples fall under you.

Thine arrows[ are] sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies;[ whereby] the people fall under thee.

Your arrows are sharp and penetrate the hearts of the king’s enemies. Nations fall at your feet.

Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.

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.

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.

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

Everyone who stumbles over that stone will be broken to pieces, and it will crush anyone it falls on.”The teachers of religious law and the leading priests wanted to arrest Jesus immediately because they realized he was telling the story against them— they were the wicked farmers. But they were afraid of the people’s reaction.

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

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

“ 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.Before long your enemies will build ramparts against your walls and encircle you and close in on you from every side.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.”

Why are the nations so angry? Why do they waste their time with futile plans?The kings of the earth prepare for battle; the rulers plot together against the Lord and against his anointed one.“ Let us break their chains,” they cry,“ and free ourselves from slavery to God.”But the one who rules in heaven laughs. The Lord scoffs at them.Then in anger he rebukes them, terrifying them with his fierce fury.For the Lord declares,“ I have placed my chosen king on the throne in Jerusalem, on my holy mountain.”The king proclaims the Lord’s decree:“ The Lord said to me,‘ You are my son. Today I have become your Father.Only ask, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the whole earth as your possession.You will break them with an iron rod and smash them like clay pots.’”

Those who believed what Peter said were baptized and added to the church that day— about 3,000 in all.

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

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

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

Peter’s words pierced their hearts, and they said to him and to the other apostles,“ Brothers, what should we do?”

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.

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.They were convinced by the power of miraculous signs and wonders and by the power of God’s Spirit. In this way, I have fully presented the Good News of Christ from Jerusalem all the way to Illyricum.