November 2014 - Page 2 of 2 - The Bible as Music

Music text:

I heard a voice coming from heaven: Come, all ye most wise virgins, store up oil in your vessels, until the bridegroom cometh. A cry goes up at midnight: Behold, the bridegroom cometh.

Source of text:
Jeremiah 40:10, Matthew 25:6

¹⁰As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.

⁶And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

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Audivi vocem, motet composed by Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)

Audivi vocem (Thomas Tallis) - New York Polyphony