So I returned, and considered all the oppressions (Bible or other Sacred Texts) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

Translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts

Verti me ad alia, et vidi calumnias

Language: Latin

Verti me ad alia, et vidi calumnias 
quae sub sole geruntur, 
et lacrimas innocentium, 
et neminem consolatorem, 
nec posse resistere eorum violentiae, 
cunctorum auxilio destitutos,
et laudavi magis mortuos quam viventes ;
et feliciorem utroque judicavi 
qui necdum natus est, 
nec vidit mala quae sub sole fiunt.

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by Bible or other Sacred Texts , from Ecclesiastes, 4:1-3 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts , Ecclesiastes, 4:1-3 [an adaptation] DUT ENG FRE ITA ; composed by Johannes Brahms.

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ENG English (Bible or other Sacred Texts) , Ecclesiastes, 4:1-3
FRE French (Français) (Bible or other Sacred Texts)

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Text added to the website: 2007-09-05 00:00:00
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So I returned, and considered all the...

Language: English after the Latin

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions 
that are done under the sun:
and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, 
and they had no comforter;
and on the side of their oppressors there was power;
but they had no comforter.
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead 
more than the living which are yet alive.
Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been,
who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

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a text in Latin by Bible or other Sacred Texts , from Ecclesiastes, 4:1-3

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

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Text added to the website: 2003-10-12 00:00:00
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:01:56
Line count: 10
Word count: 85