Lent
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So he said, he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the gap to turn away his wrathful indignation…. (Coverdale) This is a case where the Grail translation strikes me as more powerful: Then he spoke of exterminating them…. No real difference even of emphasis, but somehow "exterminate" seems more intense.
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…performed by the Westminster Abbey Choir and the Abbey Consort, under the direction of Martin Neary. I received this CD as a gift a few years ago, a fact which I mention because the cover photograph would probably have kept me from buying it for myself. This picture of a rather malevolent-looking young man struck…
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The Lord is gracious, and merciful; long-suffering, and of great goodness.The Lord is loving unto every man and his mercy is over all his works. (Coverdale)
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God is our hope and strength, a very present help in trouble.Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be moved and though the hills be carried into the midst of the sea. (Coverdale)
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I will magnify thee, O Lord, for thou hast set me up and not made my foes to triumph over me. (Coverdale) Sometimes it feels like "set up" in the colloquial sense, dunnit?
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By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept when we remembered thee, O Sion.As for our harps, we hanged them up upon the trees that are therein. (Coverdale)
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The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit a broken and contrite heart, O God, shalt thou not despise. (Coverdale) Psalm 51 appears a lot in Lent. No wonder: in Latin its first word is "miserere"–have mercy–and it's the text which has been so often set to music and known by that name. This verse is…
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This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony when he came out of the land of Egypt, and had heard a strange language.I eased his shoulder from the burden and his hands were delivered from making the pots.Thou calledst upon me in troubles, and I delivered thee * and heard thee what time as the storm fell upon…
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To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness;When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works. (Coverdale)
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Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Sion.For he hath made fast the bars of thy gates and hath blessed thy children within thee. (Coverdale)
Light On Dark Water 