Isaiah 50:4-9a
4The Lord has given me a learned tongue, so that I would know how to uphold with a word, one who has weakened. He rises in the morning, he rises to my ear in the morning, so that I may heed him like a teacher.
Psalm 68
8For because of you, I have endured reproach; confusion has covered my face. 9I have become a stranger to my brothers and a sojourner to the sons of my mother. 10For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen upon me. 11And I covered my soul with fasting, and it has become a reproach to me. 12And I put on a haircloth as my garment, and I became a parable to them. 13Those who sat at the gate spoke against me, and those who drank wine made me their song. 14But as for me, truly, my prayer is to you, O Lord. This time has pleased you well, O God. In the multitude of your mercy, in the truth of your salvation, hear me. 15Rescue me from the quagmire, so that I may not become trapped. Free me from those who hate me and from deep waters. 16Do not allow the tempest of water to submerge me, nor the deep to absorb me. And do not allow the well to close in on me. 17Hear me, O Lord, for your mercy is kind. Look upon me, according to the fullness of your compassion. 18And do not turn your face away from your servant, for I am in trouble: heed me quickly. 19Attend to my soul, and free it. Rescue me, because of my enemies. 20You know my reproach, and my confusion, and my reverence. 21All those who trouble me are in your sight; my heart has anticipated reproach and misery. And I sought for one who might grieve together with me, but there was no one, and for one who might console me, and I found no one. 22And they gave me gall for my food. And in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink. 23Let their table be a snare before them, and a retribution, and a scandal. 24Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and may their back always be crooked. 25Pour out your indignation upon them, and may the fury of your anger take hold of them. 26May their dwelling place be deserted, and may there be no one who dwells in their tabernacles. 27For they persecuted whomever you struck. And they have added to the grief of my wounds. 28Assign an iniquity upon their iniquity, and may they not enter into your justice. 29Delete them from the Book of the Living, and let them not be written down with the just. 30I am poor and sorrowful, but your salvation, O God, has taken me up. 31I will praise the name of God with a canticle, and I will magnify him with praise. 32And it will please God more than a new calf producing horns and hoofs. 33Let the poor see and rejoice. Seek God, and your soul will live. 34For the Lord has heard the poor, and he has not despised his prisoners.
Matthew 26:14-25
14Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the leaders of the priests, 15and he said to them, “What are you willing to give me, if I hand him over to you?” So they appointed thirty pieces of silver for him. 16And from then on, he sought an opportunity to betray him. 17Then, on the first day of Unleavened Bread, the disciples approached Jesus, saying, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?” 18So Jesus said, “Go into the city, to a certain one, and say to him: ‘The Teacher said: My time is near. I am observing the Passover with you, along with my disciples.’” 19And the disciples did just as Jesus appointed to them. And they prepared the Passover. 20Then, when evening arrived, he sat at table with his twelve disciples. 21And while they were eating, he said: “Amen I say to you, that one of you is about to betray me.” 22And being greatly saddened, each one of them began to say, “Surely, it is not I, Lord?” 23But he responded by saying: “He who dips his hand with me into the dish, the same will betray me. 24Indeed, the Son of man goes, just as it has been written about him. But woe to that man by whom the Son of man will be betrayed. It would be better for that man if he had not been born.” 25Then Judas, who betrayed him, responded by saying, “Surely, it is not I, Master?” He said to him, “You have said it.”