Thursday, October 1, 2026

²¹"Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.

²²Why 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 inscribed in a book!

²⁴That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!

²⁵But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

²⁶After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,

²⁷whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

⁷Hear, LORD, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.

⁸When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, LORD."

⁸When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, LORD."

⁹Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don't abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

¹³I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

¹⁴Wait for the LORD. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the LORD.

¹Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place where he was about to come.

²Then he said to them, "The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

³Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

⁴Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no one on the way.

⁵Into whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this house.'

⁶If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.

⁷Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don't go from house to house.

⁸Into whatever city you enter and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.

⁹Heal the sick who are there and tell them, 'God's Kingdom has come near to you.'

¹⁰But into whatever city you enter and they don't receive you, go out into its streets and say,

¹¹'Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that God's Kingdom has come near to you.'

¹²I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.