Lamentatio (2000),
comissioned by Dommusik München,
performed in february 2001
by the Capella Cathedralis of the Liebfrauendom in München
(dir. Karl-Ludwig Nies)
Lamentatio prima, secundi diei Feria VI
ad matutinum in nocturno I: Lectio I
HETH.
Cogitavit Dominus dissipare
murum filiæ Sion;
tetendit funiculum suum,
et non avertit manum suam a perditione:
luxitque antemurale,
et murus pariter dissipatus est.
TETH.
Defixæ sunt in terra portæ ejus,
perdidit et contrivit vectes ejus;
regem ejus et principes ejus in gentibus:
non est lex,
et prophetæ ejus non invenerunt visionem a Domino.
IOD.
Sederunt in terra, conticuerunt senes filiæ Sion;
consperserunt cinere capita sua, accincti sunt ciliciis:
abjecerunt in terram capita sua virgines Jerusalem.
Ierusalem, convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum
HETH.
The LORD determined to lay in ruins
the wall of the daughter of Zion;
he marked it off by the line;
he restrained not his hand from destroying;
he caused rampart
and wall to lament, they languish together.
TETH.
Her gates have sunk into the ground;
he has ruined and broken her bars;
her king and princes are among the nations;
the law is no more,
and her prophets obtain no vision from the LORD.
IOD.
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence;
they have cast dust on their heads and put on sackcloth;
the maidens of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
Jerusalem, return to the Lord thy God
(translation from the Revised Standard Version)