Deliver me Lord and place me (Bible or other Sacred Texts, set by (William Byrd)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Bible or other Sacred Texts

Translation © by David Wyatt

Libera me, Domine, et pone

Language: Latin

Available translation(s): ENG

Libera me, Domine, et pone me iuxta te, 
et cuiusvis manus pugnet contra me. 
Dies mei transierunt, 
cogitationes meae dissipatae sunt, 
torquentes cor meum, 
noctem verterunt in diem, 
et rursum post tenebras spero lucem.

Authorship

by Bible or other Sacred Texts , Job 17 [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 William Byrd (1542?3? - 1623), "Libera me, Domine, et pone", published 1575, from the collection Cantiones Sacrae, no. 5. [
text verified 1 time
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "Deliver me Lord and place me", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2012-07-05
Line count: 7
Word count: 34

Deliver me Lord and place me

Language: English after the Latin

Deliver me, Lord, and place me next to you, 
then the hand of any man may fight against me. 
My days have passed, 
my thoughts are scattered 
and torturing my heart; 
they have turned night to day, 
and after dark I hope for light again.

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a text in Latin by Bible or other Sacred Texts , Job 17

This text was added to the website: 2012-07-05
Line count: 7
Word count: 45