O Lord, let my soul rise up to meet you
as the day rises to meet the sun.

Praise to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever.

Come, let us bow down and bend the knee : let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.

In your great mercy, O God, answer me with your unfailing help.

Psalm 69:8-15
Surely, for your sake have I suffered reproach : and shame has covered my face.
I have become a stranger to my own kindred : an alien to my mother’s children.
Zeal for your house has eaten me up : the scorn of those who scorn you has fallen upon me.
I humbled myself with fasting : but that was turned to my reproach.
I put on sackcloth also : and became a byword among them.
Those who sit at the gate murmur against me : and the drunkards make songs about me.
But as for me, this is my prayer to you : at the time you have set, O Lord:
“In your great mercy, O God : answer me with your unfailing help.”

In your great mercy, O God, answer me with your unfailing help.

Isaiah 50:4-9
Matthew 26:1-5, 14-25