Wednesday of Holy Week

4The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught,

that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary.

He awakens morning by morning,

he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

5The Lord GOD has opened my ear.

I was not rebellious.

I have not turned back.

6I gave my back to those who beat me,

and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair.

I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

7For the Lord GOD will help me.

Therefore I have not been confounded.

Therefore I have set my face like a flint,

and I know that I won’t be disappointed.

8He who justifies me is near.

Who will bring charges against me?

Let us stand up together.

Who is my adversary?

Let him come near to me.

9Behold, the Lord GOD will help me!

Who is he who will condemn me?

Behold, they will all grow old like a garment.

The moths will eat them up.

7Because for your sake, I have borne reproach.

Shame has covered my face.

8I have become a stranger to my brothers,

an alien to my mother’s children.

9For the zeal of your house consumes me.

The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

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20Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness.

I looked for some to take pity, but there was none;

for comforters, but I found none.

21They also gave me poison for my food.

In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

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30I will praise the name of God with a song,

and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

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32The humble have seen it, and are glad.

You who seek after God, let your heart live.

33For the LORD hears the needy,

and doesn’t despise his captive people.

14Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15and said, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him to you?” So they weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver. 16From that time he sought opportunity to betray him. 17Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?” 18He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.”’” 19The disciples did as Jesus commanded them, and they prepared the Passover. 20Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples. 21As they were eating, he said, “Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.” 22They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, “It isn’t me, is it, Lord?” 23He answered, “He who dipped his hand with me in the dish will betray me. 24The Son of Man goes even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.” 25Judas, who betrayed him, answered, “It isn’t me, is it, Rabbi?” He said to him, “You said it.”