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.
12 When I put on sackcloth, I became a joke to them.
13 Those who sit at the gate chatter about me, and I am the song of the drunkards.
14 But as for me, my prayer to You, Adonai, is for a time of favor. O God, in Your great love, answer me with the truth of Your salvation.