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The text is divided into five verses. The first two express the notion that "without God, all is in vain", popularly summarized in Latin in the motto Nisi Dominus Frustra. The remaining three verses describe progeny as God's blessing. The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies.
A concerto-like ritornello opens the work with industrious rhythms and precipitous leaps appropriate to "Unless the Lord build the house". The second and third movements contrast the hesitant futility of rising before dawn [words to live by, in my opinion] with the frenetic scales of "Rise after you have rested".
The hymn "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" was written by Isaac Watts, and published in Hymns and Spiritual Songs in 1707. It is significant for being an innovative departure from the early English hymn style of only using paraphrased biblical texts, although the first couplet of the second verse paraphrases Galatians 6:14a and the second couplet of the fourth verse paraphrases Gal. 6:14b.
A well-known letter commonly attributed to President Abraham Lincoln was likely written by his secretary John Hay, finds new research.
For the first time ever, Carly Simon performed the mysterious "lost" verse from her iconic hit "You're So Vain.". Though she had unveiled the actual lyrics from the song's unreleased fourth verse ...
The Gettysburg Address is a famous speech which U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War.The speech was made at the formal dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg National Cemetery) in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated Confederate forces in the Battle of ...
George Frideric Handel. Belshazzar (HWV 61) is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel.The libretto was by Charles Jennens, and Handel abridged it considerably. [1] Jennens' libretto was based on the Biblical account of the fall of Babylon at the hands of Cyrus the Great and the subsequent freeing of the Jewish nation, as found in the Book of Daniel.
The Roman Imperial cult celebrated the gospel of the August One or Divus Augustus, a mythologized version of the first Roman emperor Octavian, also known as Augustus Caesar. [6] Augustus was both a man and a god, "a savior who has made war to cease and who shall put everything in peaceful order." [7] This period of peace is called the Pax Romana.