DESCRIPTION:
Benjamin Britten: Deus in adjutorium meum intende (Psalm 70). Composed circa 1945 for mixed chorus, SATB, a cappella. Britten Singers; Richard Hickox, conductor.

DEUS IN ADJUTORIUM MEUM INTENDE, DOMINE AD ADJUVANDUM ME FESTINA. Confundantur et revereantur qui quaerunt animam meam.
Avertantur retrorsum, et erubescant, Qui volunt mihi mala. Avertantur statim, erubescentes, Qui dicunt mihi: Euge.
Exsultent et laetentur in te omnes qui quaerunt te, et dicant semper: Magnificetur Dominus: Qui diligunt salutare tuum. Ego vero egenus et pauper sum: Deus adjuva me. Adjutor meus et liberator meus es tu: Domine ne moreris.
Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

O GOD COME TO MY ASSISTANCE, O LORD MAKE HASTE TO HELP ME. Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek my soul. Let them be turned backward, and put to confusion that wish me evil. Let them be turned at once, blushing for shame, who say to me: Well done.
Let all those that seek Thee rejoice and be glad in Thee; and those as love thy salvation, let them say always: The Lord be magnified. But I am needy and poor: O God help me. Thou art my helper and my deliverer: O Lord, make no delay.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.