22. Why do you, as if you were God, pursue and persecute me? [Acting like wild beasts] why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
23. Oh, that the words I now speak were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book [carved on a tablet of stone]!
24. That with an iron pen and [molten] lead they were graven in the rock forever!
25. For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives, and at last He [the Last One] will stand upon the earth. [Isa. 44:6; 48:12.]
26. And after my skin, even this body, has been destroyed, then from my flesh or without it I shall see God,
27. Whom I, even I, shall see for myself and on my side! And my eyes shall behold Him, and not as a stranger! My heart pines away and is consumed within me.