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First Reading: Isaiah 50:4-9a

The image of the servant of God is one of the notable motifs in the book of Isaiah. Today’s reading describes the mission of the servant, whom early Christians associated with Jesus. Like Jesus, the servant does not strike back at his detractors but trusts in God’s steadfast love.

⁴The Lord God has given me
the tongue of a teacher,
that I may know how to sustain
the weary with a word.
Morning by morning he wakens—
wakens my ear
to listen as those who are taught.
⁵The Lord God has opened my ear,
and I was not rebellious,
I did not turn backward.
⁶I gave my back to those who struck me,
and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard;
I did not hide my face
from insult and spitting.

⁷The Lord God helps me;
therefore I have not been disgraced;
therefore I have set my face like flint,
and I know that I shall not be put to shame;
⁸he who vindicates me is near.
Who will contend with me?
Let us stand up together.
Who are my adversaries?
Let them confront me.
^9aIt is the Lord God who helps me;
who will declare me guilty?

Psalm: Psalm 31:9-16

Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit. (Ps. 31:5)

⁹Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I ^| am in trouble;
my eye is consumed with sorrow, and also my throat ^| and my belly.
¹⁰For my life is wasted with grief, and my ^| years with sighing;
my strength fails me because of affliction, and my bones ^| are consumed.
¹¹I am the scorn of all my enemies, a disgrace to my neighbors, a dismay to ^| my acquaintances;
when they see me in the street ^| they avoid me.
¹²Like the dead I am forgotten, ^| out of mind;
I am as useless as a ^| broken pot. R
¹³For I have heard the whispering of the crowd; fear is ^| all around;
they put their heads together against me; they plot to ^| take my life.
¹⁴But as for me, I have trusted in ^| you, O Lord.
I have said, “You ^| are my God.
¹⁵My times are ^| in your hand;
rescue me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who ^| persecute me.
¹⁶Let your face shine up- ^| on your servant;
save me in your ^| steadfast love.” R

Second Reading: Philippians 2:5-11

Christ did not act to attain status and glory but was obedient to God even to the point of death. Following Christ’s example, we do not seek personal status or glory but care for others as God cared for us in Christ’s death.

⁵Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
⁶who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
as something to be exploited,
⁷but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
being born in human likeness.
And being found in human form,
⁸he humbled himself
and became obedient to the point of death—
even death on a cross.

⁹Therefore God also highly exalted him
and gave him the name
that is above every name,
¹⁰so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
¹¹and every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.

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