Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!

Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother’s womb.

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

But I thought, “I have worked in vain; I have expended my energy for absolutely nothing.” But the Lord will vindicate me; my God will reward me.

“Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites, when he manifested such zeal for my sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in my zeal.