Psalm 147: 12-20 [Latin] –  12 Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Sion.

13 Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath blessed thy children within thee.

14 Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the fat of corn.

15 Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth swiftly.

16 Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes.

17 He sendeth his crystal like morsels: who shall stand before the face of his cold?

18 He shall send out his word, and shall melt them: his wind shall blow, and the waters shall run.

19 Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments to Israel.

20 He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia.

Original Latin:

1 Lauda, Jerusalem, Dominum; lauda Deum tuum, Sion.

Quoniam confortavit seras portarum tuarum; benedixit filiis tuis in te.

Qui posuit fines tuos pacem, et adipe frumenti satiat te.

Qui emittit eloquium suum terrae: velociter currit sermo ejus.

Qui dat nivem sicut lanam; nebulam sicut cinerem spargit.

Mittit crystallum suam sicut buccellas: ante faciem frigoris ejus quis sustinebit?

Emittet verbum suum, et liquefaciet ea; flabit spiritus ejus, et fluent aquae.

Qui annuntiat verbum suum Jacob, justitias et judicia sua Israel.

Non fecit taliter omni nationi, et judicia sua non manifestavit eis. Alleluja.

Painting of David with his harp, Paris Psalter, c. 960, Constantinople
Painting of David with his harp, Paris Psalter, c. 960, Constantinople

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“Lauda Jerusalem,” Vesper Psalm for a cappella SATB, composed by Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611).

Psalm 147: Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611): Lauda Jerusalem

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Book of Hours - Psalm 109 (Latin Vulgate) Dixit Dominus Domino meo
Detail from Book of Hours, ca.1511 – Psalm 109 (Latin Vulgate) Dixit Dominus Domino meo

Psalm 110:1-7 [Latin: Psalmi 109]

1 The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.

He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.

Dixit Dominus Domino meo: sede a dextris meis, donec ponam inimicos tuos scabellum pedum tuorum. Virgam virtutis tuae emittet Dominus ex Sion: dominare in medio inimicorum tuorum. Tecum principium in die virtutis tuae in splendoribus sanctorum: ex utero, ante luciferum, genui te. Juravit Dominus et non poenitebit eum: tu es sacerdos in aeternum secundum ordinem Melchisedech. Dominus a dextris tuis: confregit in die irae suae reges. Judicabit in nationibus, implebit ruinas: conquassabit capita in terra multorum. De torrente in via bibet: propterea exaltabit caput.

[Additional music lyrics: Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto: Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeulorum. Amen.]

Dixit Dominus [for 8 voices] (1581), in Hymni totius anni, composed by Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Victoria: Dixit Dominus 8vv - Plus Ultra

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Paolo Veronese's Renaissance depiction of Jesus and the Centurion
Paolo Veronese’s Renaissance depiction of Jesus and the Centurion

Matthew 8:8; Psalm 6:3 [Latin]

8 And the centurion making answer, said: Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter under my roof: but only say the word, and my servant [“my soul” in Victoria’s music] shall be healed.

Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak: heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.

Domine, non sum dignus ut intres sub tectum meum, sed tantum dic verbum, et sanabitur anima mea. Miserere mei, quoniam infirmus sum; sana me, Domine, et sanabor.


Domine, non sum dignus, composed by Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Victoria: Domine non sum dignus - Plus Ultra

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Pentecost by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Pentecost by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

Acts 2:1-2, John 20:19 [Latin]

1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.


Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes by Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

First published: 1572 in Motecta I, no. 16

Victoria | Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes [á 5; Ensemble Plus Ultra]

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English: Jesus entering Jerusalem on a donkey
English: Jesus entering Jerusalem on a donkey (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Matthew 21:9 [Latin]

And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.


Pueri Hebraeorum, composed by Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Hosanna filio David / Pueri Hebraeorum

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Photo of the Book of Isaiah page of the Bible ...
Photo of the Book of Isaiah page of the Bible (cropped version) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Isaiah 53:4-5 [Latin]

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

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.

Vere languores (published 1572), composed by Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Sexteto Cantabile - Vere Languores - Tomás Luis de Victoria

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Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae: Motectum: Vere languores

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Composed by Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611). Edited by John Leavitt. Treasury Choral. 12 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.117924).

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Contemporary printing of the sheet music for T...
Contemporary printing of the sheet music for Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Officium Defunctorum. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Job 30:31, 7:16b [Latin]

31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

Versa est in luctum (1605, from Requiem Mass, Officium defunctorum) by Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Requiem Mass, 1605: Motet, Versa est in luctum

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Officium Defunctorum [Requiem] by Tomas Luis de Victoria. For SSATTB choir. Published by Mapa Mundi.

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"Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Je...
“Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem” by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Lamentations 1:1-2,6,10-11; 2:8,12a,13a; 3:1-2,22,27; 4:1-2; 5:1-5 [Latin]

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

22 It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

Lamentations of Jeremiah (1585, from Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae) by Tomás Luis de Victoria [Ital.: da Vittoria] (1548–1611)

Victoria Lamentations of Jeremiah

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