Readings for Lent and Easter

^4 (5) They that have sinas chinom (baseless hatred) toward me are more than the hairs of mine rosh; they that would destroy me, being mine oyevim (enemies) sheker (baselessly) are mighty; then I restored that which I did not steal.

^5 (6) O Elohim, Thou knowest my folly; and my ashmot (guiltinesses) are not hid from Thee.

^6 (7) Let not them that wait on Thee, Adonoi Hashem Tzva’os, be ashamed because of me; let not those that seek Thee be disgraced because of me, O Elohei Yisroel.

^7 (8) Because for Thy sake I have borne cherpah; shame hath covered my face.

^8 (9) I am become a stranger unto my achim, and a nochri (foreigner) unto the bnei immi (sons of my mother).

^9 (10) For kinas Beitcha (zeal for Thy House) hath consumed me; and the cherpot of them that scorned Thee are fallen upon me [Yn 2:17].

^10 (11) When I wept, and chastened my nefesh in the tzom (fast), that became my cherpot (reproaches).

^11 (12) I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a mashal (byword) to them.

^12 (13) They that sit [as judges] in the sha’ar (gate) speak against me; and I was the neginot (drinking songs) of the drunkards.