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Language: Greek (Ελληνικά) 
Megalynei ἡ psychē mu tὸn Kyrion
kaὶ ἠgalliasen tὸ pneῦma mu ἐpὶ tῷ Theῷ tῷ sōtῆri mu,
ὅti ἐpeblepsen ἐpὶ tὴn tapeinōsin tῆs doylēs autoῦ.
ἰdoy gὰr ἀpὸ toῦ nῦn makarioῦsin me pᾶsai aἱ geneai,
ὅti ἐpoiēsen moi megala ὁ dynatos,
kaὶ ἅgion tὸ ὄnoma aὐtoῦ,
kaὶ tὸ ἔleos aὐtoῦ eἰs geneὰs kaὶ geneὰs
toῖs phobumenoῖs auton.
Ἐpoiēsen kratos ἐn brachioni aὐtoῦ,
dieskorpisen ὑperēphanus dianoiᾳ kardias aὐtῶn;
katheῖlen dynastas ἀpὸ thronōn
kaὶ ὕpsōsen tapeinoys,
peinῶntas ἐneplēsen ἀgathῶn
kaὶ plutoῦntas ἐxapesteilen kenoys.
ἀntelabeto Ἰsraὴl paidὸs aὐtoῦ,
mnēsthῆnai ἐleus,
kathὼs ἐlalēsen prὸs toὺs pateras ἡmῶn
tῷ Abraὰm kaὶ tῷ spermati aὐtoῦ eἰs tὸn aἰῶna.

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  • Also set in English, a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts , St. Luke's Gospel. ; composed by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir, Dalwyn Henshall.
  • Also set in English, a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts ; composed by Paul Patterson.
  • Also set in English, a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts ; composed by William Byrd, Thomas Tomkins.
  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts ; composed by Heinrich Schütz.
  • Also set in Latin, a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts , Luke 1:46-55 ; composed by Tomaso Albinoni, Johann Sebastian Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, Francesco Durante, Robert Fayrfax, Francesco Feo, Giorgio Gaslini, Hildegard von Bingen, Luca Marenzio, Richard Monk, John Nesbitt, Roxanna Panufnik, Arvo Pärt, Krzysztof Penderecki, Domenico Scarlatti, Franz Peter Schubert, Heinrich Schütz, John Kenneth Tavener, Ralph Vaughan Williams, José Carlos do Amaral Vieira Filho, Antonio Vivaldi, Jan Dismas Zelenka.

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This text was added to the website: 2010-01-15
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Word count: 102