4 V—IUXTA HEBR.

• L'homme est semblable au néant | ses jours sont comme une ombre qui passe.

1–15 LITURGIE JUIVE (rite séphardi) Ce psaume se chante en introduction à l'office de sortie de sabbat, le samedi soir. Il est chanté en choeur sur un air rythmé, dont une tradition prétend qu'il remonterait à l'Antiquité. Benedetto Marcello s'est fait l'écho de cette tradition qui existait donc déjà à Venise en son temps.

1–15 La louange de David

17^e s.

90,1s.15 ; 144,3s ; 102,12 Seigneur notre refuge

20^e s.

Paroles

Lord, thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another, Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting, and world without end. Again thou sayest Come again, ye children of men, seeing that is past as a watch in the night. And fade away, way suddenly like the grass. But in the Ev'ning it is cut down, dried up, and withered. Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee and our secret sins in thy light of the countenance. The days of our age are threescore years and ten, and tho' men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labor and sorrow, so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts, unto wisdom. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, Amen.

Compositeur

Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow est né à Huddersfield le 22 août 1874. Il était organiste et compositeur anglais dans la tradition musicale de l'église anglicane.