Psalm 69.1-13

Refrain: Hide not your face from your servant, O Lord.

1  Save me, O God, ♦
   for the waters have come up, even to my neck.

2  I sink in deep mire where there is no foothold; ♦
   I have come into deep waters and the flood sweeps over me.

3  I have grown weary with crying; my throat is raw; ♦
   my eyes have failed from looking so long for my God.

4  Those who hate me without any cause ♦
   are more than the hairs of my head;

5  Those who would destroy me are mighty; ♦
   my enemies accuse me falsely:
      must I now give back what I never stole?

6  O God, you know my foolishness, ♦
   and my faults are not hidden from you.

7  Let not those who hope in you
      be put to shame through me, Lord God of hosts; ♦
   let not those who seek you be disgraced because of me,
      O God of Israel.

8  For your sake have I suffered reproach; ♦
   shame has covered my face.

9  I have become a stranger to my kindred, ♦
   an alien to my mother’s children.

10  Zeal for your house has eaten me up; ♦
   the scorn of those who scorn you has fallen upon me.

11  I humbled myself with fasting, ♦
   but that was turned to my reproach.

12  I put on sackcloth also ♦
   and became a byword among them.

13  Those who sit at the gate murmur against me, ♦
   and the drunkards make songs about me.

Refrain: Hide not your face from your servant, O Lord.

Thirsting on the cross,
your Son shared the reproach of the oppressed
and carried the sins of all;
in him, O God, may the despairing find you,
the afflicted gain life
and the whole creation know its true king,
Jesus Christ our Lord.

Psalm 22.1-11

Refrain: Be not far from me, O Lord.

1  My God, my God, why have you forsaken me, ♦
   and are so far from my salvation,
      from the words of my distress?

2  O my God, I cry in the daytime,
      but you do not answer; ♦
   and by night also, but I find no rest.

3  Yet you are the Holy One, ♦
   enthroned upon the praises of Israel.

4  Our forebears trusted in you; ♦
   they trusted, and you delivered them.

5  They cried out to you and were delivered; ♦
   they put their trust in you and were not confounded.

6  But as for me, I am a worm and no man, ♦
   scorned by all and despised by the people.

7  All who see me laugh me to scorn; ♦
   they curl their lips and wag their heads, saying,

8  ‘He trusted in the Lord; let him deliver him; ♦
   let him deliver him, if he delights in him.’

9  But it is you that took me out of the womb ♦
   and laid me safe upon my mother’s breast.

10  On you was I cast ever since I was born; ♦
   you are my God even from my mother’s womb.

11  Be not far from me, for trouble is near at hand ♦
   and there is none to help.

Refrain: Be not far from me, O Lord.

Restless with grief and fear,
the abandoned turn to you:
in every hour of trial,
good Lord, deliver us,
O God most holy, God most strong,
whose wisdom is the cross of Christ.