Readings for Lent and Easter

⁴ I am worn out by my crying,
my throat is parched,
my eyes fail, waiting for my God.
⁵ Those who hate me without a cause^[a] outnumber the hairs of my head.
Powerful are my enemies who would destroy me with lies.
What I did not steal, must I restore?
⁶ O God, You know my folly,
nor are my trespasses hidden from You.
⁷ May those who hope in You
    not be ashamed because of me,
    my Lord, Adonai-Tzva’ot.
May those who seek You
    not be disgraced because of me,
    O God of Israel.
⁸ For I have endured scorn for Your sake.
Disgrace has covered my face.
⁹ I have become a stranger to my brothers,
a foreigner to my mother’s children.
¹⁰ For zeal for Your House consumed me—
the insults of those who insulted You have fallen on me.^[b]
11 When I wept and fasted—
that became a reproach to me.
¹² When I put on sackcloth,
I became a joke to them.