Readings for Lent and Easter

⁴ They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head; they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty. Then I was made to restore that which I took not away.

⁵ O God, Thou knowest my foolishness, and my sins are not hid from Thee.

⁶ Let not them that wait on Thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake, let not those that seek Thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel,

⁷ because for Thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

⁸ I have become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.

⁹ For the zeal for Thine house hath eaten me up, and the reproaches of them that reproached Thee have fallen upon me.

¹⁰ When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, that was turned to my reproach.

¹¹ I also made sackcloth my garment, and I became a proverb to them.

¹² They that sit at the gate speak against me, and I have become the song of the drunkards.