to the man called the “suffering servant.” I am not going to attempt to deal with all of this material in detail. Rather, I will sketch out matters in broad brush and try to give a comprehensive picture of prayer in the Old Testament. So I will be moving at a fast clip and assume when I mention one line of Scripture that the entire story will rise up in all of its rich detail within the reader’s imagination. But I am not giving such a sweeping treatment for its own sake. What I want to do is to say