Readings for Lent and Easter

²¹ “Have pity upon me. Have pity upon me, O you my friends. For the Hand of God has touched me.

²² “Why do you persecute me, as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

²³ “Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were written even in a book,

²⁴ “engraved with an iron pen in lead, or in stone, forever!

²⁵ “For I am sure that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand the last on the Earth.

²⁶ “And even after my skin is destroyed, I shall still see God in my flesh,

²⁷ “Whom I myself shall see and my eyes shall behold, and no other. My core is consumed within me.

²⁸ “But if there is a deep matter in me, you would say, ‘Why is he persecuted?’

²⁹ “Be afraid of the sword! For the sword will be avenged of wickedness, so that you may know that there is a judgment.”