Wednesday of Holy Week

4The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master. 5The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not gone back. 6I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me. 7The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded: therefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not be confounded. 8He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us stand together, who is my adversary? let him come near to me. 9Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is he that shall condemn me? Lo, they shall all be destroyed as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.

8Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

9I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.

10For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

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21In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none.

22And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

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31I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify him with praise.

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33Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall live.

34For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners.

14Then went one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, to the chief priests, 15And said to them: What will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you? But they appointed him thirty pieces of silver. 16And from thenceforth he sought opportunity to betray him. 17And on the first day of the Azymes, the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the pasch? 18But Jesus said: Go ye into the city to a certain man, and say to him: the master saith, My time is near at hand, with thee I make the pasch with my disciples. 19And the disciples did as Jesus appointed to them, and they prepared the pasch. 20But when it was evening, he sat down with his twelve disciples. 21And whilst they were eating, he said: Amen I say to you, that one of you is about to betray me. 22And they being very much troubled, began every one to say: Is it I, Lord? 23But he answering, said: He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, he shall betray me. 24The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed: it were better for him, if that man had not been born. 25And Judas that betrayed him, answering, said: Is it I, Rabbi? He saith to him: Thou hast said it.