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Dixit Dominus

Original Text

English Translation

Dixit Dominus Domino meo:
Sede a dextris meis.
Donec ponam inimicos tuos,
scabellum pedum tuorum.

Virgam virtutis tuae
emittet ex Sion:
dominare in medio inimicorum tuorum.

Tecum principium in die virtutis tuae
in splendorbus sanctorum:
ex utero ante luciferum genui te.

Juravit Dominus, et non paenitebit eum:
Tu es sacerdos in aeternum
secundum ordinem Melchisedech.

Dominus a dextris tuis,
Confregit in die irae suae reges.

Judicabit in nationibus, implebit ruinas:
conquassabit capita in terra multorum.

De torrente in via bibet:
propterea exaltabit caput.

Gloria Patri, et Filio,
et Spiritui Sancto.
Sicut erat inprincipio, et nunc, et semper,
et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

The Lord said to my Lord,
"Sit at My right hand,
until I make your foes
a stool beneath your feet."

The Lord will extend from Zion
the sceptre of your power.
Rule in the midst of your foes!

Yours the princely rank from your birth day
in holy splendor
Like dew before the day star I have begotten you.

The Lord has sworn and will not repent,
"You are a priest forever,
a priest like to Melchisedech."

The Lord is at your right hand,
he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.

He will judge the nations, heap up the slain,
destroy the leaders far and wide.

On his way, he will drink of the torrent,
so to look up in triumph.

Glory to the Father, to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit;
As it was in the beginning, now and for ever,
throughout all ages. Amen.

This piece was performed by the SFBC in A Candlelight Christmas from Spain and the New World on December 16, 2000.