English: Johann Christoph Bach (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Job 14:1-2 [German]
1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Der Mensch, vom Weibe geboren, composed by Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703)
Performed by Cantamus Berlin
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English: Portrait of Alonso Lobo. Español: Retrato de Alonso Lobo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Job 30:31, 7:16 [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 (1602), composed by Alonso Lobo (1555-1617)
Performed by The Southwark Cathedral Merbecke Choir
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Portrait of Georg Friedrich Händel Deutsch: Georg Friedrich Händel (1733) Español: Georg Friedrich Händel en 1733 Français : Georg Friedrich Haendel en 1733 Nederlands: Georg Friedrich Händel Polski: G. F. Händel w 1733 roku Русский: Георг Фридрих Гендель (1733) Svenska: Georg Friedrich Händel (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Lamentations 1:1,1:4; 2:10
2 Samuel 1:19
Job 29:11,12,14
Philippians 4:8
Psalm 103:17; 112:6;
Daniel 12:3
1 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!
4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
19 The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
17 But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
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The Ways of Zion Do Mourn / Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, composed in 1737 by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Performed by Monteverdi Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner
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Elijah reviving the Son of the Widow of Zarephath by Louis Hersent
Joel 2:12-13; Deuteronomy 4:29, Jeremiah 29:13, Job 23:3
12 Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
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Ye people, rend your hearts; If with all your heart – recitative and air from Elijah, Op. 70, composed by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) and English version first performed in April 1847
Performed by Westchester Oratorio Society
Benjamin Nieczyk, Conductor
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Mendelssohn: Elijah: Air (Obadiah) – “If with all your hearts”
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