Quam multi, Domine (David Peebles)
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- Editor: Richard Shakeshaft (submitted 2024-02-12). Score information: Unknown Copyright: Personal
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- Editor: Jason Smart (submitted 2019-04-03). Score information: A4, 11 pages, 508 kB Copyright: CC BY NC ND
- Edition notes: Edited from the Wode Partbooks at original pitch with halved note values.
General Information
Title: Quam multi, Domine
Composer: David Peebles
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: Peebles composed this setting of psalm 3 in 1576 at the request of Robert Stewart, Earl of March and Commendator of St Andrew's. It is described in the source as 'verray grave and dulce'.
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Quam multi, Domine, sunt qui infestant me.
Multi insurgunt adversum me,
multi dicunt animae meae,
non est certa illi salus in Deo.
At tu, Domine, clipeus es super me,
presens ad tuendum me, gloria mea.
Et extollens caput meum voce mea
ad Dominum clamavi, et exaudivit me
de monte sanctitatis suae.
Ego jacui et dormivi;
surrexi quoniam Dominus suffulciit me.
Exsurge, Domine.
Serva me, Deus mi,
quia percussisti omnes inimicos meos maxilla,
dentes improborumm confregisti;
Domini est illa salus et super populum tuum,
et super populum tuum benedictio tua.
Immortali Deo gloria, Patri et Filio,
et Spiritui Sancto, sicut erat in principio
et nunc et in omne aevum.
Amen.