The ways of Zion do mourn (Michael Wise)

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• (Posted 2019-04-26)  CPDL #54066:   

Editor: Tim Pratt (submitted 2019-04-26).   Score information: A4, 12 pages, 483 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed into F# minor

• CPDL #05132:      (Sibelius 2)

Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2003-05-24).   Score information: A4, 12 pages, 136 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: unrealized continuo part

General Information

Title: The ways of Zion do mourn
Composer: Michael Wise

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Soloists: Solo SB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: 1773 in Cathedral Music, Volume 3, p. 203

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• Live 1961 performance on YouTube (Guildford Cathedral Choir) - Barry Rose

Original text and translations

English text

The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
For these things I weep: mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me.
See, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile
Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
For these things I weep: mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me.
See, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile.

Lamentations 1:4-5; 1:11