Animam meam dilectam

General information

The Sixth Responsory of the Office of Tenebrae on Good Friday. Taken from Jeremiah 12:7-8, 11.

Notes on selected settings

• Orlando di Lasso
  • SATB
  • SAATB - without the response Insurrexerunt

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Matteo Bidelli — Animam meam dilectam  Latin SATB.SATB
• Derrick Gerarde — Animam meam dilectam  Latin SATTBB
• Orlando di Lasso — Animam meam dilectam a 4  Latin SATB
• Orlando di Lasso — Animam meam dilectam a 5  Latin SAATB
• Pomponio Nenna — Ánimam meam diléctam  Latin SATB
• Tomás Luis de Victoria — Animam meam dilectam  Latin SATB
• Jan Dismas Zelenka — Animam meam dilectam, ZWV 55:15  Latin SATB
• Jan Dismas Zelenka — Responsories for Good Friday, ZWV 55:10-18  Latin SATB
• Annibale Zoilo — Animam meam dilectam  Latin SATB

Text and translations

Latin text Animam meam dilectam tradidi in manus iniquorum, et facta est mihi hereditas mea sicut leo in silva: dedit contra me voces adversarius, dicens: Congregamini, et properate ad devorandum illum: posuerunt me in deserto solitudinis, et luxit super me omnis terra: Quia non est inventus qui me agnosceret, et faceret bene. Insurrexerunt in me viri absque misericordia, et non pepercerunt animæ meæ. Quia non est inventus qui me agnosceret, et faceret bene. Animam meam dilectam...

English translation I delivered my beloved soul into the hands of the wicked, and my inheritance has become to me as a lion in the forest: my adversary spoke out against me, saying: Come together, and make haste to devour him: They placed me in a lonely desert, and all the earth mourned over me: For no one was found who would acknowledge me, and do good to me. Men with no mercy rose up against me, and they spared not my soul. For no one was found who would acknowledge me, and do good to me. I delivered my beloved soul...