Job 19:21, Psa 32:4, Isa 48:10-13 | ESV | STEP | Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends , for the hand of God has touched me!

Job 19:21

21 Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends,
for the hand of God has ^atouched me!

Psalms 32:4

4 For day and night your ^bhand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up ^{▼▼Hebrew my vitality was changed} as by the heat of summer. Selah

Isaiah 48:10-13

10 Behold, I have refined you, ^dbut not as silver;
^eI have tried ^{▼▼Or I have chosen} you in the furnace of affliction.
11 ^gFor my own sake, for my own sake, I do it,
for how should my name ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks my name} be profaned?
ⁱMy glory I will not give to another.

The Lord’s Call to Israel

12 “Listen to me, O Jacob,
and Israel, whom I called!
I am he; ^jI am the first,
and I am the last.
13 My hand ^klaid the foundation of the earth,
and my right hand ^lspread out the heavens;
^mwhen I call to them,
they stand forth together.