O eterne Deus (Hildegard von Bingen)

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  • (Posted 2025-03-06)  CPDL #84093:   
Editor: Allison Mondel (submitted 2025-03-06).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 51 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Transcribed from Riesencodex f. 466r.

General Information

Title: O eterne Deus
Composer: Hildegard von Bingen
Lyricist: Hildegard von Bingen
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: unison
Genre: SacredAntiphon

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: Antiphon for God the Father

External websites:

Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

O eterne Deus,
nunc tibi placeat
ut in amore illo ardeas
ut membra illa simus,
que fecisti in eodem amore,
cum Filium tuum genuisti
in prima aurora
ante omnem creaturam,
et inspice necessitatem hanc
que super nos cadit,
et abstrahe eam a nobis
propter Filium tuum,
et perduc nos in leticiam salutis.

English.png English translation

Oh neverending God,
please may you
smolder in that love
in which you conceived
those limbs that we would be
when you birthed your Son
in the first sunrise
before all creation.
Look upon these urgings
that fall on us,
and draw them out of us
through your son,
and lead us deep into the joy of salvation.
Translation by Hugh McElroy