Domine ante te (Jacob Handl)

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  • (Posted 2025-06-12)  CPDL #85416:     
Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-06-12).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 213 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Note values halved, written pitch retained.

General Information

Title: Domine ante te
Composer: Jacob Handl
Text: Psalm 37:10-16
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: SacredMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1586 in Opus musicum (Jacob Handl), Volume 1, no. 73
Description: Motet for Lent.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 38.

Latin.png Latin text

10  Domine, ante te omne desiderium meum, et gemitus meus a te non est absconditus.
11  Cor meum conturbatum est; dereliquit me virtus mea,
et lumen oculorum meorum, et ipsum non est mecum.
12  Amici mei et proximi mei adversum me appropinquaverunt, et steterunt; et qui juxta me erant,
de longe steterunt:
  et vim faciebant qui quaerebant animam meam.
13  Et qui inquirebant mala mihi, locuti sunt vanitates, et dolos tota die meditabantur.
14  Ego autem, tamquam surdus, non audiebam; et sicut mutus non aperiens
os suum.
15  Et factus sum sicut homo non audiens, et non habens in ore suo redargutiones.
16  Quoniam in te, Domine, speravi; tu exaudies me, Domine Deus meus.

English.png English translation

Lord, thou knowest all my desire: and my groaning is not hid from thee.
My heart panteth, my strength hath failed me:
and the sight of mine eyes is gone from me.
My lovers and my neighbours did stand looking upon my trouble:
and my kinsmen stood afar off.
They also that sought after my life laid snares for me:
and they that went about to do me evil talked of wickedness, and imagined deceit all the day long.
As for me, I was like a deaf man, and heard not: and as one that is dumb, who doth not open his mouth.
I became even as a man that heareth not: and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
For in thee, O Lord, have I put my trust: thou shalt answer for me, O Lord my God.