And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,

My feet have followed his steps closely; I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.

As for me, because I am innocent I will see your face; when I awake you will reveal yourself to me.

whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

Teach me what I cannot see. If I have done evil, I will do so no more.’

So Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them territory in the land of Egypt, in the best region of the land, the land of Rameses, just as Pharaoh had commanded.

You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.

Why should the name of our father be lost from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among the relatives of our father.”

I want to climb the palm tree, and take hold of its fruit stalks. May your breasts be like the clusters of grapes, and may the fragrance of your breath be like apricots!

Sinners are afraid in Zion; panic grips the godless. They say, ‘Who among us can coexist with destructive fire? Who among us can coexist with unquenchable fire?’