Readings for Lent and Easter

⁵ O God, you know my stupidity,
and the things of which I am guilty are not hidden from you.
⁶ Do not let those who wait with hope for you
be put to shame because of me, O Almighty Lord of Armies.
Do not let those who come to you for help
be humiliated because of me, O God of Israel.

⁷ Indeed, for your sake I have endured insults.
Humiliation has covered my face.
⁸ I have become a stranger to my ⌞own⌟ brothers,
a foreigner to my mother’s sons.
⁹ Indeed, devotion for your house has consumed me,
and the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.
¹⁰ I cried and fasted, but I was insulted for it.
¹¹ I dressed myself in sackcloth, but I became the object of ridicule.
¹² Those who sit at the gate gossip about me,
and drunkards make up songs about me.