Handel, George F. (1685-1759)

Isaiah 53:8b

⁸ He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

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He was cut off out of the land of the living (recitative), from Messiah (1741) by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Performed by Magdalene Minnaar, Cape Town Youth Choir & Junges Vokalensemble, Hannover

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Lamentations 1:12b

¹² Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

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Behold, and see if there be any sorrow (recitative), from Messiah (1741) by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Performed by Levy Sekgapane, Cape Town Youth Choir & Junges Vokalensemble, Hannover

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Psalm 69:20

²⁰ Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

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Thy rebuke hath broken His heart (recitative), from Messiah (1741) by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Performed by Levy Sekgapane, Cape Town Youth Choir & Junges Vokalensemble, Hannover

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Psalm 22:8

⁸ He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

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He trusted in God (Chorus), from Messiah (1741) by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Performed by Cape Town Youth Choir & Junges Vokalensemble, Hannover

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Psalm 22:7

⁷ All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

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All they that see Him laugh Him to scorn (recitative), from Messiah (1741) by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Performed by Levy Sekgapane, Cape Town Youth Choir & Junges Vokalensemble, Hannover

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Isaiah 53:6

⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

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All we like sheep have gone astray (chorus), from Messiah (1741) by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Performed by Mécénat Musica

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Isaiah 53:5b

⁵ But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

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And with his stripes we are healed (chorus), from Messiah (1741) by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Performed by Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

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Isaiah 53:4a,5a

⁴ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

⁵ But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

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Surely he hath borne our griefs (chorus), from Messiah (1741) by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Performed by Royal Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of London School for Girls

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Isaiah 53:3a; 50:6

³ He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

⁶ I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

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He was despised (air), from Messiah (1741) by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Performed by Amanda Crider, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra

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John 1:29b

²⁹ The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

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Behold the Lamb of God (chorus), from Messiah (1741) by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Performed by Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists

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