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26 Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced;
my body[a] also will live in hope,
27 because you will not leave my soul in Hades,[b]
nor permit your Holy One to experience[c] decay.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 2:26 tn Grk “my flesh.”
  2. Acts 2:27 tn Or “will not abandon my soul to Hades.” Often “Hades” is the equivalent of the Hebrew term Sheol, the place of the dead.
  3. Acts 2:27 tn Grk “to see,” but the literal translation of the phrase “to see decay” could be misunderstood to mean simply “to look at decay,” while here “see decay” is really figurative for “experience decay.”

26 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;
    my body also will rest in hope,
27 because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,
    you will not let your holy one see decay.(A)

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