Exaltabo te Domine

General information

Offertory for Ash Wednesday & Pentecost XI.
Source of text is Psalm 29:2-3 (Vulgate).

Settings by composers

Richard Eldon Barber S solo Giovanni Battista Casali SATB Giovanni Croce SATB Orlando di Lasso a 4 SATB a 6 SATTBB (includes v.4)

Domenico Mazzocchi ST Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SATTB Giovanni Rovetta SATB & (independent) bc. Alessandro Scarlatti SATB

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Mariano Garau — Exaltabo te
• Gregorian chant — Exaltabo
• Valentin Rathgeber — Exaltabo te
• Alexander Utendal — Exaltabo te Domine

Text and translations

Latin text 29:2  Exaltabo te Domine, quoniam suscepisti me nec delectasti inimicos meos super me. 29:3  Domine clamavi ad te et sanasti me. 29:4  Domine eduxisti ab inferno animam meam, salvasti me a descendentibus in lacum. Hungarian translation Magasztallak téged, Uram, mert fölemeltél engem, és nem hagytad örülni ellenségeimet fölöttem. Uram, Istenem, hozzád kiáltottam és meggyógyítottál engem. Uram! kihoztad a pokolból lelkemet; kiszabadítottál engem a sírgödörbe menők közül.

English translation 30:1  I will magnify thee, O Lord, for thou hast set me up : and not made my foes to triumph over me. 30:2  O Lord my God, I cried unto thee : and thou hast healed me. 30:3  Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul from hell: thou hast saved me from them that go down into the pit.