Yesaya 38:3-6

38:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ¹  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ²  and how I have carried out your will.” ³  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ⁴ 

38:4 The Lord told Isaiah, ⁵  38:5 “Go and tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor ⁶  David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life, 38:6 and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city.”’”

Yesaya 58:9

58:9 Then you will call out, and the Lord will respond;

you will cry out, and he will reply, ‘Here I am.’

You must ⁷  remove the burdensome yoke from among you

and stop pointing fingers and speaking sinfully.

Yesaya 65:24

65:24 Before they even call out, ⁸  I will respond;

while they are still speaking, I will hear.

Yesaya 65:2

65:2 I spread out my hands all day long

to my rebellious people,

who lived in a way that is morally unacceptable,

and who did what they desired. ⁹ 

1 Samuel 15:31

15:31 So Samuel followed Saul back, and Saul worshiped the Lord.

1 Samuel 17:23

17:23 As he was speaking with them, the champion named Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, was coming up from the battle lines of the Philistines. He spoke the way he usually did, ¹⁰  and David heard it.

1 Samuel 17:2

17:2 Saul and the Israelite army ¹¹  assembled and camped in the valley of Elah, where they arranged their battle lines to fight against ¹²  the Philistines.

Kisah Para Rasul 19:20-21

19:20 In this way the word of the Lord ¹³  continued to grow in power ¹⁴  and to prevail. ¹⁵ 

A Riot in Ephesus

19:21 Now after all these things had taken place, ¹⁶  Paul resolved ¹⁷  to go to Jerusalem, ¹⁸  passing through Macedonia ¹⁹  and Achaia. ²⁰  He said, ²¹  “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.” ²² 

Ayub 22:27

22:27 You will pray to him and he will hear you,

and you will fulfill your vows to him. ²³ 

Mazmur 91:15

91:15 When he calls out to me, I will answer him.

I will be with him when he is in trouble;

I will rescue him and bring him honor.

Daniel 9:20-23

Gabriel Gives to Daniel a Prophecy of Seventy Weeks

9:20 While I was still speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my request before the LORD my God concerning his holy mountain ²⁴  – 9:21 yes, while I was still praying, ²⁵  the man Gabriel, whom I had seen previously ²⁶  in a vision, was approaching me in my state of extreme weariness, ²⁷  around the time of the evening offering. 9:22 He spoke with me, instructing me as follows: ²⁸  “Daniel, I have now come to impart understanding to you. 9:23 At the beginning of your requests a message went out, and I have come to convey it to you, for you are of great value in God’s sight. ²⁹  Therefore consider the message and understand the vision: ³⁰ 

Kisah Para Rasul 4:31

4:31 When ³¹  they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken, ³²  and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak ³³  the word of God ³⁴  courageously. ³⁵ 

[38:3]  ¹ tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

[38:3]  ² tn Heb “and with a complete heart”; KJV, ASV “with a perfect heart.”

[38:3]  ³ tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

[38:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “wept with great weeping”; NCV “cried loudly”; TEV “began to cry bitterly.”

[38:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying.”

[38:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “father” (so KJV, NAB, NIV).

[58:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “if you.” In the Hebrew text vv. 9b-10 are one long conditional sentence. The protasis (“if” clauses appear in vv. 9b-10a), with the apodosis (“then” clause) appearing in v. 10b.

[65:24]  ⁸ tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[65:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “who walked [in] the way that is not good, after their thoughts.”

[17:23]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “according to these words.”

[17:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the men of Israel” (so KJV, NASB); NAB, NIV, NRSV “the Israelites.”

[17:2]  ¹² tn Heb “to meet.”

[19:20]  ¹³ sn The word of the Lord is a technical expression in OT literature, often referring to a divine prophetic utterance (e.g., Gen 15:1, Isa 1:10, Jonah 1:1). In the NT it occurs 15 times: 3 times as ῥῆμα τοῦ κυρίου (rJhma tou kuriou; Luke 22:61, Acts 11:16, 1 Pet 1:25) and 12 times as λόγος τοῦ κυρίου (logo" tou kuriou; here and in Acts 8:25; 13:44, 48, 49; 15:35, 36; 16:32; 19:10; 1 Thess 1:8, 4:15; 2 Thess 3:1). As in the OT, this phrase focuses on the prophetic nature and divine origin of what has been said.

[19:20]  ¹⁴ tn The imperfect verb ηὔξανεν (huxanen) has been translated as a progressive imperfect, as has the following verb ἴσχυεν (iscuen).

[19:20]  ¹⁵ sn The word of the Lord…to prevail. Luke portrays the impact of Christianity in terms of the Lord’s transforming power in the lives of individuals.

[19:21]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “all these things had been fulfilled.”

[19:21]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “Paul purposed in [his] spirit” (an idiom). According to BDAG 1003 s.v. τίθημι 1.b.ε the entire idiom means “to resolve” (or “decide”): “ἔθετο ὁ Παῦλος ἐν τῷ πνεύματι w. inf. foll. Paul resolved 19:21.”

[19:21]  ¹⁸ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[19:21]  ¹⁹ sn Macedonia was the Roman province of Macedonia in Greece.

[19:21]  ²⁰ sn Achaia was the Roman province of Achaia located across the Aegean Sea from Ephesus. Its principal city was Corinth.

[19:21]  ²¹ tn Grk “Achaia, saying.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence and the awkwardness in English of having two participial clauses following one another (“passing through…saying”), the participle εἰπών (eipwn) has been translated as a finite verb and a new sentence begun here in the translation.

[19:21]  ²² sn This is the first time Paul mentions Rome. He realized the message of Christianity could impact that society even at its heights.

[19:21]  map For location see JP4 A1.

[22:27]  ²³ tn The words “to him” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.

[9:20]  ²⁴ tn Heb “the holy mountain of my God.”

[9:21]  ²⁵ tn Heb “speaking in prayer.”

[9:21]  ²⁶ tn Heb “in the beginning.”

[9:21]  ²⁷ tn The Hebrew expression בִּיעָף מֻעָף (mu’af bi’af) is very difficult. The issue is whether the verb derives from עוּף (’uf, “to fly”) or from יָעַף (ya’af, “to be weary”). Many ancient versions and modern commentators take the first of these possibilities and understand the reference to be to the swift flight of the angel Gabriel in his coming to Daniel. The words more likely refer to the extreme weariness, not of the angel, but of Daniel. Cf. 7:28; 8:27; 10:8-9, 16-17; also NASB.

[9:22]  ²⁸ tn Heb “he instructed and spoke with me.” The expression is a verbal hendiadys.

[9:23]  ²⁹ tn Or “a precious treasure”; KJV “greatly beloved”; NASB, NIV “highly esteemed.”

[9:23]  ³⁰ tn This sentence is perhaps a compound hendiadys (“give serious consideration to the revelatory vision”).

[4:31]  ³¹ tn Grk “And when.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[4:31]  ³² sn The place where they were assembled…was shaken. This signifies that God is in their midst. See Acts 16:26; Exod 19:18; Ps 114:7; Isa 6:4.

[4:31]  ³³ tn The imperfect verb has been translated as an ingressive imperfect (“began to speak”). Logical sequencing suggests that their speaking began after they were filled with the Spirit. The prayer was answered immediately.

[4:31]  ³⁴ tn Or “speak God’s message.”

[4:31]  ³⁵ tn Or “with boldness.”