Super flumina Babylonis (Offertory)

General information

Offertory for Pentecost XX
Source of text: Psalm 136:1 (Vulgate)

Settings by composers

• Johann Kaspar Aiblinger SATB
• Orlando di Lasso
  • a 2 SA
  • a 4 SATB
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SAATB

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Johann Kaspar Aiblinger — Super flumina Babylonis, Op. 9, No. 9

Text and translations

Latin text Super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus et flevimus, cum recordaremur Sion.

English translation By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept: when we remembered thee, O Sion.