The Bible as Music

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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Messiah, Edited by Watkins Shaw, Novello Handel Edition. 257 pages

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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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Messiah, Edited by Watkins Shaw, Novello Handel Edition. 257 pages

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Choral Public Domain Library

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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Messiah, Edited by Watkins Shaw, Novello Handel Edition. 257 pages

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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

SHEET MUSIC

Messiah, Edited by Watkins Shaw, Novello Handel Edition. 257 pages

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Choral Public Domain Library