Readings for Lent and Easter

⁴ They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head:
They that would cut me off, being mine enemies ^[a]wrongfully, are mighty:
That which I took not away I have to restore.
⁵ O God, thou knowest my foolishness;
And my ^[b]sins are not hid from thee.
⁶ Let not them that wait for thee be put to shame through me, O Lord Jehovah of hosts:
Let not those that seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.
⁷ Because for thy sake I have borne reproach;
Shame hath covered my face.
⁸ I am become a stranger unto my brethren,
And an alien unto my mother’s children.
⁹ For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up;
And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.
¹⁰ When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting,
That was to my reproach.
¹¹ When I made sackcloth my clothing,
I became a byword unto them.
¹² They that sit in the gate talk of me;
And I am the song of the drunkards.