Longing for God and His Help in Distress (William Ellison)

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• (Posted 2023-05-26)  CPDL #73904:         

Editor: William Ellison (submitted 2023-05-26).   Score information: Letter, 54 pages, 469 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: If wanted for performance, contact William Ellison at cyber.cowboy2@me.com for a copy of instrumental parts.

General Information

Title: Longing for God and His Help in Distress
Composer: William Ellison
Lyricist: William Ellison
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Lament

Language: English
Instruments: Wind ensemble

First published: 2023
Description: This is an original composition by William H Ellison during May, 2023 and is based on Psalm 42 with text from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVEU) of the Bible. This composition is for SATB choir with woodwind accompaniment (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, and Bassoon).

Original text and translations

English text

Psalm 42
Longing for God and His Help in Distress
To the leader. A Maskil of the Korahites.
01   
As a deer longs for flowing streams,
     so my soul longs for you, O God.
02  
My soul thirsts for God,

    for the living God.
When shall I come and behold

    the face of God?
03  
My tears have been my food

    day and night,
while people say to me continually,

    “Where is your God?”
04  
These things I remember,

    as I pour out my soul:

how I went with the multitude

    and led them in procession to the house of God,

with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving,

    a multitude keeping festival.
05  
Why are you cast down, O my soul,

    and why are you disquieted within me?

Hope in God, for I shall again praise him, 
my help and my God.
06  
 My soul is cast down within me;

    therefore I remember you

from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,

    from Mount Mizar.
07  
Deep calls to deep

    at the thunder of your torrents;

all your waves and your billows

    have gone over me.
08  
By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,

    and at night his song is with me,
 
     a prayer to the God of my life.
09  
I say to God, my rock,

    “Why have you forgotten me?

Why must I walk about mournfully

    because the enemy oppresses me?”
10  
As with a deadly wound in my body,

    my adversaries taunt me,

while they say to me continually,

    “Where is your God?”
11  
Why are you cast down, O my soul,

    and why are you disquieted within me?

Hope in God, for I shall again praise him,

    my help and my God.