Readings for Lent and Easter
4 Those who hate me without cause
are more numerous than the hairs of my head.
Those who want to destroy me,
my enemies for no reason,[a]
outnumber me.[b]
They make me repay what I did not steal.[c]
5 O God, you are aware of my foolish sins;[d]
my guilt is not hidden from you.[e]
6 Let none who rely on you be disgraced because of me,
O Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies.[f]
Let none who seek you be ashamed because of me,
O God of Israel.
7 For I suffer[g] humiliation for your sake[h]
and am thoroughly disgraced.[i]
8 My own brothers treat me like a stranger;
they act as if I were a foreigner.[j]
9 Certainly[k] zeal for[l] your house[m] consumes me;
I endure the insults of those who insult you.[n]
10 I weep and refrain from eating food,[o]
which causes others to insult me.[p]
11 I wear sackcloth
and they ridicule me.[q]
12 Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me;
drunkards mock me in their songs.[r]
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