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Psalm 23, Dead Sea Scrolls
Psalm 23, Dead Sea Scrolls

Psalm 23:4 [Latin]

4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Si ambulem in medio umbrae mortis, from Missa pro defunctis (1532) in Viginti missarum musicalium, composed by Jean Richafort (c. 1480 – c.1547)

Requiem [in memoriam Josquin Desprez] à 6 voix: III. Graduale - Si ambulem

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Os justi Gregorian chant
Os justi meditabitur, Gregorian chant excerpt as it appears in Liber Usualis (1961)

Psalm 37:30, 31a, 1 [Latin]

30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

Os justi meditabitur, Gregorian chant from Liber Usualis (p. 1200) [pdf] – Introit for the Common of a Confessor not a Bishop.

Os Justi Meditabitur (Confessor not a Bishop, Introit)

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Wisdom 3:1-3 [Latin]

1 Justorum autem animae in manu Dei sunt, et non tanget illos tormentum mortis.

2 Visi sunt oculis insipientium mori, et aestimata est afflictio exitus illorum,

3 et quod a nobis est iter exterminium; illi autem sunt in pace:

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1 The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God,
    and no torment shall touch them.
2 They seemed, in the view of the foolish, to be dead;
    and their passing away was thought an affliction
3     and their going forth from us, utter destruction.
But they are in peace.

Justorum animae, from Gradualia I, no. 31 (1605), composed by William Byrd (1539/40-1623)

Byrd - Justorum Animae | The Marian Consort

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Detail of an 18th-century posthumous engraving of William Byrd by Gerard Vandergucht, after Niccolò Haym.
Detail of an 18th-century posthumous engraving of William Byrd by Gerard Vandergucht, after Niccolò Haym.

Psalm 48:9-10,1 [Latin]

9 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

10 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

1 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

Suscepimus Deus – Justitia – Magnus Dominus, from 1605 in Gradualia I, no. 1 – by William Byrd (1539/40-1623)

Byrd: Suscepimus (Introitus) - Cardinall's Musick

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