Readings for Lent and Easter

⁴ Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who would destroy me, and are wrongfully my enemies, are mighty. Thus, I restored that which I did not take.

⁵ O God, You know my foolishness, and my faults are not hidden from You.

⁶ Do not let those who trust in You, O LORD God of Hosts, be ashamed because of me. Do not let those who seek You be confounded through me, O God of Israel.

⁷ For Your sake I have suffered reproach; shame has covered my face.

⁸ I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s sons.

⁹ For the zeal of Your House has eaten me, and the rebukes of those who rebuked You have fallen upon me.

¹⁰ I wept and my soul fasted; but that was to my reproach.

¹¹ I put on sackcloth also; and I became a proverb to them.

¹² Those who sit in the gate speak of me; and I am the song of the drunkards.