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 Pierluigi da Palestrina SATTB
• Alessandro Scarlatti SATB

Original text and translations

Latin text 29:2  Exaltábo te Dómine, quóniam suscepísti me nec delectásti inimícos méos súper me. 29:3  Dómine clamávi ad te et sanásti me.

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.