Multae tribulationes

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General information

Lyricist: Psalm 34 (33), 20 - 21

Settings by composers

Philipp Avenarius SATTB
Orlando di Lasso SATTBB, only verse 20
Jacob Meiland SSATB, only verse 20

Texts and Translations

The text is used with some slight variants, as shown below.

Latin text

20 Multae tribulationes justorum;
et de omnibus his/iis liberabit/liberavit eos Dominus.

21 Custodit Dominus omnia ossa eorum,
unum ex his non conteretur.

German translation

20 Viele sind die Leiden der Gerechten,
und aus all ihnen wird/hat sie der Herr befreien/befreit.

21 Er bewahrt alle ihre Gebeine,
dass nicht eines von ihnen zerbrochen wird.

Translation by Gerhard Weydt

English translation

20 Many are the troubles of the just,
and from all of them the Lord will make/has made them free.

21 The Lord preserves all of their bones,
so that none of them may be broken.

Translation by Gerhard Weydt