The Phrygian (Turkish) Oracle | I myself have seen the greatest God wishing to punish

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by David Wyatt

Sibylla Phrygia

Language: Latin

Our translations: ENG FIN FRE

Ipsa Deum vidi summum punire volentem
Mundi homines stupidos et pectora caeca rebellis,
Et quia sic nostram complerent crimina pellem.
Virginis in corpus voluit demittere coelo
Ipse Deus prolem, quam nuntiat angelus almae
Matri Quo miseros contracto sorte lavaret.

Note: the last two words may be "sorde levaret"

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, from a medieval compilation of Jewish, Christian and pagan sources. [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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

by Roland de Lassus (1532 - 1594), "Sibylla Phrygia", published 1578, from Prophetiae Sibyllarum, no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (David Wyatt) , "The Phrygian (Turkish) Oracle", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Sibylle de Phrygie", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 39

The Phrygian (Turkish) Oracle

Language: English after the Latin

I myself have seen the greatest God wishing to punish
The foolish men and blind hearts of a rebellious world.
And because sin so fills our hides.
God himself wished to send his son from heaven 
into the body of a virgin, whom the angel announces to his dear mother,
to wash the wretched from their suffocating fate.

Translator's note for the last line: an alternative for this line is "to relieve the wretched from suffocating filth"

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in Latin by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , from a medieval compilation of Jewish, Christian and pagan sources.
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This text was added to the website: 2012-05-18
Line count: 6
Word count: 58