The Bible as Music

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

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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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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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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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