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[11] Nicolas Vallet, Pseaume 12 (Cl?ment Marot)

Donne secours, Seigneur, il en est heure,
Car d'hommes droits sommes tous desnu?s.
Entre les fils des hommes ne demeure
Un qui ait foi, tant sont diminu?s.

Certes chacun vanit? menteries
? son prochain dit ordinairement;
Aux l?vres n'a l'homme que flatteries;
Quand il dit l'un, son coeur pence autrement.

Dieu, vueille donc ces l?vres blandissantes
Tout ? travers pour jamais inciser;
Pareillement ces langues arrogantes
Qui bravement ne font que deviser.

Uit: N.Vallet, Een en twintich Psalmen Davids / Vingt et un pseaumes de David. Amsterdam 1615.
[11] Nicolas Vallet, Psalm 12 (Cl?ment Marot)

Help, Lord, it is time,
For righteous men are all come undone.
Among the children of men there remain none
Who has faith, all are weakened.

Indeed everyone lies, in vanity,
Speaking this way to his neighbor;
On their lips men have naught but flattery;
Whatever he says, his heart thinks otherwise.

O God, please take those lying lips
And cut them all in two forever;
Likewise those arrogant tongues
Which brashly do nothing but chatter.

From: N.Vallet, Een en twintich Psalmen Davids / Vingt et un pseaumes de David (Twenty-one Psalms of David). Amsterdam 1615.

Translation: Ruth van Baak Griffioen

Camerata Trajectina (artiest), Calvijn in de Gouden Eeuw = Calvinist music from France and the Netherlands. GLO 6064
2009
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