Readings for Lent and Easter

⁴ Those who hate me without reason outnumber the hairs on my head.
Those who want to destroy me, my lying enemies, are strong.
I must repay things I did not steal.

⁵ God, you know my folly,
and my guilt is not hidden from you.
⁶ May those who place their confidence in you^[a]
    not be put to shame because of me,
    O Lord, the Lord of Armies.
May those who seek you not be disgraced because of me,
    O God of Israel.
⁷ It is for your sake that I bear scorn.
Shame covers my face.
⁸ I have become a stranger to my brothers,
a foreigner to my mother’s sons.
⁹ Yes, zeal for your house consumes me.
The scorn of those who scorn you falls on me.
¹⁰ I wept as I fasted,
but this only brought insults to me.
¹¹ When I wore sackcloth as my clothing,
I was a joke to them.
¹² Those who sit in the gatehouse gossip about me,
and the songs of the drunks are about me.