Audite cæli (Guillaume Costeley)

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Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2026-03-26).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 122 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA
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Title: Audite cæli
Composer: Guillaume Costeley
Lyricist: Deuteronomy 32: 1 - 6create page
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: SacredMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1570 in Musique de Guillaume Costeley, no. 104
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Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Audite cæli quæ loquor
audiat terra verba oris mei.
Concrescat in pluviam doctrina mea fluat
ut ros eloquium meum, quasi imber super herbam
et quasi stillæ super gramina.
Quia nomen Domini invocabo. Date magnificentiam Deo nostro.
Dei perfecta sunt opera: et omnes viæ eius judicia. Deus fidelis,
et absque ulla iniquitate justus et rectus.
Peccaverunt ei et non filii eius in sordibus
generatio prava atque perversa.
Hæcine reddis Domino popule stulte et insipiens?
Laudate gentes populus eius: quia sanguinem servorum suorum ulciscetur,
et propitius erit regi nostro.

English.png English translation

Hearken, ye heavens, and I will speak:
and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, and my speech
shall still as the dew, as the shower upon the herbs,
and as the great rain upon the grass.
For I will publish the name of the Lord: give ye glory unto our God.
Perfect is the work of the mighty God: for all his ways are judgment.
God is true, and without wickedness: just and righteous is he.
They have corrupted themselves toward him by their vice, not being his children,
but a froward and crooked generation.
Do ye so reward the Lord, O foolish people and unwise?
Praise him all ye nations: for he shall redeem the blood of of his servants,
and shall be equable in our governance.

(Geneva Bible)