Acts 2:35

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
until I make your enemies your footstool.’

King James Version (1611)
Untill I make thy foes thy footstoole.

King James Version
Until I make thy foes thy footstool.

English Standard Version
until I make your enemies your footstool."'

New American Standard Bible
UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES A FOOTSTOOL FOR YOUR FEET."'

New Century Version
until I put your enemies under your control."' Psalm 110:1

Amplified Bible
UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES A FOOTSTOOL FOR YOUR FEET."'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES A FOOTSTOOL FOR YOUR FEET."'

Legacy Standard Bible
Until I put Your enemies as a footstool for Your feet."'

Berean Standard Bible
until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet."'

Contemporary English Version
until he made my Lord's enemies into a footstool for him."

Complete Jewish Bible
‘ Adonai said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."'

Darby Translation
until I have put thine enemies [to be] the footstool of thy feet.

Easy-to-Read Version
until I put your enemies under your power.'

Geneva Bible (1587)
Vntill I make thine enemies thy footestoole.

George Lamsa Translation
Until I make thy foes thy footstool.

Good News Translation
until I put your enemies as a footstool under your feet.'

Lexham English Bible
until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."'

Literal Translation
until I place those hostile to You as a footstool for Your feet." LXX-Psa. 109:1; MT-Psa. 110:1

American Standard Version
Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet.

Bible in Basic English
Till I put all those who are against you under your feet.

Hebrew Names Version
Until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."'

International Standard Version
until I make your enemies your footstool."'Psalm 110:1">[fn]

Etheridge Translation
Until I place thine adversaries the stool of thy feet.

Murdock Translation
until I shall place thy enemies a footstool to thy feet.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Untill I make thy foes thy footstoole.

English Revised Version
Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet.

World English Bible
Until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."'

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Sit thou on my right-hand, Until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

Weymouth's New Testament
until I make thy foes a footstool under thy feet.'

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sitte thou on my riyt half, til Y putte thin enemyes a stool of thi feet.

Update Bible Version
Until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."

Webster's Bible Translation
Until I make thy foes thy footstool.

New English Translation
until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet ."'

New King James Version
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool." ' Psalms 110:1 ">[fn]

New Living Translation
until I humble your enemies, making them a footstool under your feet."'

New Life Bible
for those who hate You will be a place to rest Your feet."'

New Revised Standard
until I make your enemies your footstool."'

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Until I make thy foes thy footstool.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Until I make thy enemies thy footstool.

Revised Standard Version
till I make thy enemies a stool for thy feet.'

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
vntill I make thy fooes thy fote stole.

Young's Literal Translation
till I make thy foes thy footstool;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
vntyll I make thine enemies yi fote stole.

Mace New Testament (1729)
until I make thy foes thy footstool."

Simplified Cowboy Version
I will humble those who hate you, and you'll be able to use them as a footstool."'"

Contextual Overview

¹⁴That's when Peter stood up and, backed by the other eleven, spoke out with bold urgency: "Fellow Jews, all of you who are visiting Jerusalem, listen carefully and get this story straight. These people aren't drunk as some of you suspect. They haven't had time to get drunk—it's only nine o'clock in the morning. This is what the prophet Joel announced would happen: "In the Last Days," God says, "I will pour out my Spirit on every kind of people: Your sons will prophesy, also your daughters; Your young men will see visions, your old men dream dreams. When the time comes, I'll pour out my Spirit On those who serve me, men and women both, and they'll prophesy. I'll set wonders in the sky above and signs on the earth below, Blood and fire and billowing smoke, the sun turning black and the moon blood-red, Before the Day of the Lord arrives, the Day tremendous and marvelous; And whoever calls out for help to me, God, will be saved." ²²"Fellow Israelites, listen carefully to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man thoroughly accredited by God to you—the miracles and wonders and signs that God did through him are common knowledge—this Jesus, following the deliberate and well-thought-out plan of God, was betrayed by men who took the law into their own hands, and was handed over to you. And you pinned him to a cross and killed him. But God untied the death ropes and raised him up. Death was no match for him. David said it all: I saw God before me for all time. Nothing can shake me; he's right by my side. I'm glad from the inside out, ecstatic; I've pitched my tent in the land of hope. I know you'll never dump me in Hades; I'll never even smell the stench of death. You've got my feet on the life-path, with your face shining sun-joy all around. ²⁹"Dear friends, let me be completely frank with you. Our ancestor David is dead and buried—his tomb is in plain sight today. But being also a prophet and knowing that God had solemnly sworn that a descendant of his would rule his kingdom, seeing far ahead, he talked of the resurrection of the Messiah—‘no trip to Hades, no stench of death.' This Jesus, God raised up. And every one of us here is a witness to it. Then, raised to the heights at the right hand of God and receiving the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he poured out the Spirit he had just received. That is what you see and hear. For David himself did not ascend to heaven, but he did say, God said to my Master, "Sit at my right hand Until I make your enemies a stool for resting your feet." "All Israel, then, know this: There's no longer room for doubt—God made him Master and Messiah, this Jesus whom you killed on a cross."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy foes: Genesis 3:15, Joshua 10:24, Joshua 10:25, Psalms 2:8-12, Psalms 18:40-42, Psalms 21:8-12, Psalms 72:9, Isaiah 49:23, Isaiah 59:18, Isaiah 60:14, Isaiah 63:4-6, Luke 19:27, Luke 20:16-18, Romans 16:20, Revelation 19:19-21, Revelation 20:1-3, Revelation 20:8-15

Reciprocal: Matthew 22:44 - The Lord Matthew 25:33 - his Luke 20:42 - the Lord Galatians 3:8 - In Hebrews 10:13 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Until I make thy foes thy footstool.

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For David is not ascended into the heavens - That is, David has not risen from the dead and ascended to heaven. This further shows that Psalms 16:1-11 could not refer to David, but must refer to the Messiah. Great as they esteemed David, and much as they were accustomed to apply these expressions of the Scripture to him, yet they could not be applicable to him. They must refer to some other being; and especially that passage which Peter now proceeds to quote. It was of great importance to show that these expressions could not apply to David, and also that David bore testimony to the exalted character and dignity of the Messiah. Hence, Peter here adduces David himself as affirming that the Messiah was to be exalted to a dignity far above his own. This does not affirm that David was not saved, or that his spirit had not ascended to heaven, but that he had not been exalted in the heavens in the sense in which Peter was speaking of the Messiah.

But he saith himself - Psalms 110:1.

The Lord - The small capitals used in translating the word “Lord” in the Bible denote that the original word is יהוה Yahweh. The Hebrews regarded this as the unique name of God, a name incommunicable to any other being. It is not applied to any being but God in the Scriptures. The Jews had such a reverence for it that they never pronounced it; but when it occurred in the Scriptures they pronounced another name, אדני ̀Adonaay. Here it means, “Yahweh said,” etc.

My Lord - This is a different word in the Hebrew - it is אדני ̀Adonaay. It properly is applied by a servant to his master, or a subject to his sovereign, or is used as a title of respect by an inferior to a superior. It means here, “Yahweh said to him whom I, David, acknowledge to be my superior and sovereign.” Thus, though he regarded him as his descendant according to the flesh, yet he regarded him also as his superior and Lord. By reference to this passage our Saviour confounded the Pharisees, Matthew 22:42-46. That the passage in this Psalm refers to the Messiah is clear. Our Saviour, in Matthew 22:42, expressly applied it thus, and in such a manner as to show that this was the well-understood doctrine of the Jews. See the notes on Matthew 22:42, etc.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 35. Until I make thy foes thy footstool. — It was usual with conquerors to put their feet on the necks of vanquished leaders, as emblematical of the state of subjection to which they were reduced, and the total extinction of their power. By quoting these words, Peter shows the Jews, who continued enemies to Christ, that their discomfiture and ruin must necessarily take place, their own king and prophet having predicted this in connection with the other things which had already been so literally and circumstantially fulfilled. This conclusion had the desired effect, when pressed home with the strong application in the following verse.