5 Those who hate me without a cause 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.
11 When I wept and fasted— that became a reproach to me.