My Music - Habakkuk's complaint
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Composed: 2006
First performance: 2007

This work had its first performance on a Komvest concert on May 23 2007 by the chamber choir Hymnia and the saxophonist Charlotte Andersson. The recordings on this page are from that concert.

If you wish to perform, publish, or just study this work, please send me a note.

OriginalTranslation

Habakkuks klage  - Live

Du, hvis øjne er for rene til at se på ondskaben,
du, som ikke roligt kan se på ulykken,
hvordan kan du roligt se på troløse,
tie, når uretfærdige opsluger retfærdige?

Mundi sunt oculi tui, ne videas malum;
et respicere ad iniquitatem non poteris.
Quare respicis super inique agentes et taces, devorante impio iustiorem se?

Hab 1,13; JEE

Habakkuk's complaint

Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil,
and canst not look on iniquity:
wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously,
and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

KJV Hab. 1,13; JEE

Habakkuks klage  - Live

Jeg vil stå på min post,
jeg vil stille mig på vagt og spejde
for at se, hvad han vil sige til mig,
hvad jeg får som svar på min klage.

Habakkuk 2,1

Habakkuk's complaint

I will stand upon my watch,
and set me upon the tower,
and will watch to see what he will say unto me,
and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

KJV Habakkuk 2,1

Habakkuks klage  - Live

Herren svarede mig:
»Skriv synet tydeligt på tavler,
så det er let at læse.
For synet gælder først den fastsatte tid,
det vidner om enden, og det bedrager ikke.
Hvis det trækker ud, så vent,
for det kommer, det udebliver ikke.«
Se, den overmodige er uden retskaffenhed,
men den retfærdige skal leve i tro.

Hab 2,2-4; JEE

Habakkuk's complaint

And the LORD answered me, and said,
Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables,
that he may run that readeth it.
For the vision is yet for an appointed time,
but at the end it shall speak, and not lie:
though it tarry, wait for it;
because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him:
but the just shall live by his faith.

KJV Hab. 2,2-4; JEE

If you find that some of my music has too much similarity with other music, please contact me. I don't intend to plagiarize.