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Monday, March 16, 2015

Psalm 100: put into Metrical Form for "Lumley Prayer Book" (1544-5) -- Jubilate Deo - Latin for Praise God! - 16th Century

Translated / edited / modernized by Judith Blezzard for The Tudor Music of the Lumley Books, RRMR, 1985):
1.  All men rejoice and praise the Lord,
     lift up your voice with one concord,
     come forth in sight before his throne,
     serve him in sprite, one God alone.
     Confess, confess his majesty,
     one God doubtless in Trinity.
2.  He is that Lord that made us,
     he is that Lord most gracious,
     he made all us of earth and dust,
     we made not us, confess we must.
     His people indeed a flock we are,
     whom he doth feed with a busy care.
3.  Enter, enter his mercy gate,
     there is no bar for any estate,
     give thanks most high for his great grace,
     unspeakably in every place.
     Speak, read, and sing his laud and praise,
     his glad tiding, his word always.
4.  Let your life days and good living,
     express his praise in everything,
     of great mercy and gentleness,
     he hath plenty and the fullness.
     His promises be most constant sure,
     in each degree, always to endure.
[also found at Appendix: The Text of Psalms and Canticles in Robin A. Leaver's essay "Metrical Psalms and Canticles, the Book of Common Prayer, and Thomas Cranmer" (2010) in The Serious Business of Worship edited Melanie C. Ross and Simon Jones (T & T Clark, Continuum).]

    

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