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

24 That they were engraved on a rock
With an iron pen and lead, forever!

25 For I know that my Redeemer lives,
And He shall stand at last on the earth;

26 And after my skin is¹ destroyed, this I know,
That ^ain my flesh I shall see God, ‡

27 Whom I shall see for myself,
And my eyes shall behold, and not another.
How my¹ heart yearns within me! ‡

28 If you should say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’—
Since the root of the matter is found in me,

29 Be afraid of the sword for yourselves;
For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
That you may know there is a judgment.”