Readings for Lent and Easter

¹² Many bulls have encircled me;
mighty bulls of Bashan have surrounded me.
¹³ They open their mouth against me
like a lion tearing and roaring.
¹⁴ I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax;
it is melted within me.^[a]
15 My strength is dry like a potsherd,
and my tongue is sticking to my jaws;
and you have placed me in the dust of death.
¹⁶ Because dogs have surrounded me;
a gang of evildoers has encircled me.
Like the lion^[b] they are at my hands and my feet.
¹⁷ I can count all my bones;
they gaze, they look at me.
¹⁸ They divide my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.^[c]