Gustate et videte

General information

Communion Motet for Pentecost VIII. Source of text is Psalm 33:9-10 (Vulgate).

Settings by composers

Ambrosian chant (includes vv.2,4&6) Kievian chant, in English SATB Giovanni Matteo Asola SAT or TTB Giovanni Paolo Cima SSB or TTB Charles H. Giffen Gustate et videte ATB (Latin, v. 9 Antiphon, with vv. 2-8,16,18-20,23) O taste and see ATB (English, v. 8 Antiphon, with vv. 1-7,15,17-19,22) John Goss, in English SATB & organ

Heinrich Isaac SATB Orlando di Lasso SATTB Ludwig Senfl a 3 Arthur Sullivan, in English SATB & organ (adds v.11 "Come, ye children, and hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.") Ralph Vaughan Williams, in English (copyright 1952) SATB a cappella with organ intro.

Original text and translations

Latin text 33:9  Gustate et videte quoniam suavis est Dominus; beatus vir qui sperat in eo. 33:10  Timete Dominum, omnes sancti ejus, quoniam non est inopia timentibus eum. 33:11  Divites eguerunt, et esurierunt; inquirentes autem Dominum non minuentur omni bono.

English translation 34:8  O taste, and see, how gracious the Lord is: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. 34:9  O fear the Lord, ye that are his saints: for they that fear him lack nothing. 34:10  The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they who seek the Lord shall want no manner of thing that is good.