Super flumina Babylonis (Offertory)

General information

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

Settings by composers

• Aiblinger SATB
• Orlando di Lasso
  • a 2 SA
  • a 4 SATB
  • a 5 SSATB
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
  • a 5 SAATB
  • a 4 SATB
• Michel-Richard de Lalande
• Antonio Savetta
• Jeffrey Quick
• Nicolas Gombert
• Philippe de Monte
• Tomás Luis de Victória
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier
• Luca Marenzio

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 Over the waters of Babylon, there we sat and wept, as we reminisced about Sion.

Italian translation Sopra i fiumi di Babilonia, là sedemmo e piangemmo, quando ripensammo a Sion.