Quiescat vox tua (Giaches de Wert)

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  • (Posted 2015-12-03)  CPDL #37743:          (Finale 2014)
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  • (Posted 2015-12-03)  CPDL #37744:          (Finale 2014)
Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2015-12-03).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 327 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Secunda pars.
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General Information

Title: Quiescat vox tua / Revertentur filii tui
Composer: Giaches de Wert
Source of text: Jeremiah 31:16a,10b,17b,13b

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SAATTB

Genre: SacredMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1581 in Modulationum cum sex vocibus liber primus, no. 2
    2nd published: 1583 in Harmoniae miscellae cantionum sacrarum, no. 26
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Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Quiescat vox tua a ploratu
et oculi tui a lacrimis
Qui dispersit Israel congregabit eum,
et custodiet sicut pastor gregem suum.

Revertentur filii tui ad terminos suos,
convertam luctum eorum in gaudium,
et consolabor eos, et lætificabo a dolore suo

English.png English translation

Let thy voice cease from weeping,
and thy eyes [from] tears.
He that scattered Israel will gather him:
and he will keep him as the shepherd doth his flock.

The children shall return to their own borders,
I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them,
and make them joyful after their sorrow.

(Douay-Rheims Bible: selected texts from Jeremiah Chapter 31)