Scio enim quod Redemptor (Orlando di Lasso)
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- Editor: Matthew Collett (submitted 2007-10-31). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 333 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Scio enim quod Redemptor
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Source of lyrics: Job 19:25-27
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1563, Liber primus Musarum cum quatuor vocibus sacrarum cantionum ... ab Orlando di Lassus, Cipriano Rore, et aliis ecclesiasticis authoribus compositarum, Venice
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Scio enim quod Redemptor meus vivit
et in novissimo die de terra surrecturus sum.
Rursum circumdabor pelle mea,
et in carne mea videbo Deum Salvatorem meum.
Quem visurus sum ego ipse,
et oculi mei conspecturi sunt, et non alius.
Reposita est haec spes mea in sinu meo.
English translation
I know that my Redeemer lives
and that at the last day I shall rise from the earth.
Again I shall be clothed with my body,
and in my flesh shall I see God my Saviour.
I am to see him my very self,
and my eyes are to behold, and no other.
This hope of mine is stored in my breast.