Readings for Lent and Easter
21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends,
for the hand of God has touched me!(A)
22 Why do you, like God, pursue me,
never satisfied with my flesh?(B)
23 “O that my words were written down!
O that they were inscribed in a book!(C)
24 O that with an iron pen and with lead
they were engraved on a rock forever!(D)
25 For I know that my vindicator[a] lives
and that in the end he will stand upon the earth;(E)
26 and after my skin has been destroyed,
then in my flesh I shall see God,(F)
27 whom I shall see on my side,
and my eyes shall behold, and not another.
My heart faints within me!(G)
28 If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’
and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’(H)
29 be afraid of the sword,
for wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
so that you may know there is a judgment.”(I)
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