Ecce quomodo moritur justus

Behold How the Just Man Dies

Voicing:
Mixed Choir → SATB

Accompaniment:
Unaccompanied

Function/Language(s):
Latin

Occasion:

Proper of Time → Holy Week → Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
Proper of Time → The Sacred Paschal Triduum → Friday of the Passion of the Lord

Publication Information:
Arista — AE 721 (2010)

Lyrics:

Ecce quomodo moritur iustus,
et nemo percipit corde:
et viri iusti tolluntur,
et nemo considerat.
A facie iniquitatis
sublatus est iustus: 
et erit in pace memoria eius.

Tamquam agnus coram tondente se obmutuit,
et non aperuit os suum:
de angustia, et de iudicio sublatus est.

English translation:
Behold how the just man dies,
and no one takes it to heart:
the just are taken away,
and no one cares.
In the face of violence
is the just man taken,
and there shall be peace in the memory of him.

Like a lamb before his shearer is dumb,
he opened not his mouth;
from misery and judgement he was taken.

Submitted by: Brian Luckner Added: Nov 17, 2021 Last updated: Jan 26, 2022