Readings for Lent and Easter

¹² Many bulls surround me.
Strong bulls from Bashan encircle me.
¹³ Enemies open their mouths wide against me,
like a lion that tears its prey and roars.
¹⁴ Like water I am poured out.
All my bones are pulled apart.
My heart has become like wax.
It has melted in the middle of my chest.
¹⁵ My strength is dried up like broken pottery,
and my tongue is stuck to the roof of my mouth.
You lay me in the dust of death.
¹⁶ For dogs have surrounded me.
A band of evil men has encircled me.
They have pierced^[a] my hands and my feet.
¹⁷ I can count all my bones.
They stare and gloat over me.
¹⁸ They divide my garments among them.
For my clothing they cast lots.