The Acceptable Sacrifice (William Ellison)

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•  Posted on 2024-09-30(Posted 2024-09-30)  CPDL #82213:         

Editor: William Ellison (submitted 2024-09-30).   Score information: Letter, 45 pages, 477 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: This edition is for SATB choir with piano accompaniment.

General Information

Title: The Acceptable Sacrifice
Composer: William Ellison
Lyricist: William Ellison
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 2024
Description: Psalm 50 - The Acceptable Sacrifice.

This is an original composition by William H Ellison during March-August, 2024 and is based on Psalm 50 with text from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible

Original text and translations

English text

Psalm 50
The Acceptable Sacrifice
A Psalm of Asaph.
01  The Mighty One, God the Lord,
speaks and summons the earth

    from the rising of the sun to its setting.
02  Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,

    God shines forth.
03  Our God comes, he does not keep silence,

    before him is a devouring fire,

    round about him a mighty tempest.
04  He calls to the heavens above

    and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
05   “Gather to me my faithful ones,

    who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”
06   The heavens declare his righteousness,

    for God himself is judge!

                           Selah

07   “Hear, O my people, and I will speak,

    O Israel, I will testify against you.

    I am God, your God.
08   I do not reprove you for your sacrifices;

    your burnt offerings are continually before me.
09   I will accept no bull from your house,

    nor he-goat from your folds.
10   For every beast of the forest is mine,

    the cattle on a thousand hills.
11   I know all the birds of the air,

    and all that moves in the field is mine.
12   “If I were hungry, I would not tell you;

    for the world and all that is in it is mine.
13   Do I eat the flesh of bulls,

    or drink the blood of goats?
14   Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,

    and pay your vows to the Most High;
15   and call upon me in the day of trouble;

    I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
16   But to the wicked God says:

    “What right have you to recite my statutes,

    or take my covenant on your lips?
17   For you hate discipline,

    and you cast my words behind you.
18   If you see a thief, you are a friend of his;

    and you keep company with adulterers.
19   “You give your mouth free rein for evil,

    and your tongue frames deceit.
20   You sit and speak against your brother;

    you slander your own mother’s son.
21   These things you have done and I have been silent;

    you thought that I was one like yourself.
 But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.
22   “Mark this, then, you who forget God,

    lest I rend, and there be none to deliver!
23   He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me;

    to him who orders his way aright

    I will show the salvation of God!”