Readings for Lent and Easter

²¹ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends;
for the hand of God hath touched me.
²² Why do ye persecute me as God,
and are not satisfied with my flesh?
²³ Oh that my words were now written!
oh that they were printed in a book!
²⁴ That they were graven with an iron pen and lead
in the rock for ever!
²⁵ For I know that my redeemer liveth,
and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
²⁶ and though after my skin worms destroy this body,
yet in my flesh shall I see God:
²⁷ whom I shall see for myself,
and mine eyes shall behold, and not another;
though my reins be consumed within me.

²⁸ But ye should say, Why persecute we him,
seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
²⁹ Be ye afraid of the sword:
for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword,
that ye may know there is a judgment.