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 with keyboard Giovanni Battista Casali SATB Giovanni Croce SATB Orlando di Lasso a 4 SATB a 6 SATTBB (adds 2nda pars "Domine eduxisti" (Ps. 30(29):4)

Domenico Mazzocchi ST & bc. 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.   Hungarian translation Magasztallak téged, Uram, mert fölemeltél engem, és nem hagytad örülni ellenségeimet fölöttem. Uram, Istenem, hozzád kiáltottam és meggyógyítottál engem.

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.