Readings for Lent and Easter

¹² Men have surrounded me like angry bulls.
    The strong bulls of Bashan are on every side.
¹³ Like hungry, roaring lions
    they open their jaws at me.
¹⁴ My strength is gone
    like water poured out onto the ground.
All my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax.
    It has melted inside me.
¹⁵ My strength has dried up like a piece of a broken pot.
    My tongue sticks to the top of my mouth.
    You laid me in the dust of death.
¹⁶ Evil men have surrounded me.
    Like dogs they have trapped me.
    They have bitten my arms and legs.
¹⁷ I can count all my bones.
    People look and stare at me.
¹⁸ They divided my clothes among them,
    and they threw lots for my clothing.