Readings for Lent and Easter

⁵ O Elohim, 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 Adonay Yahweh Tsebaoth.
    Do not let those who come to you for help
    be humiliated because of me, O Elohim 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.