LISTEN to a Sublime "Civitas sancti tui" - "The holy cities are a wilderness" of Byrd Sung by TENEBRAE Choir at St. John's in London

Composer: William Byrd (1540? - 1623), «Civitas sancti tui», TENEBRAE Choir, Conductor - Nigel Short, Filmed at St John’s Smith Square, London. LYRICS Ne irascaris, Domine, satis et ne ultra memineris iniquitatis nostrae. Ecce, respice, populus tuus omnes nos. Civitas sancti tui facta est deserta. Sion deserta facta est, Jerusalem desolata est. (Isaiah 64 v. 9) Translation - Be not angry, O Lord, still, neither remember our iniquity for ever. Behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. The holy cities are a wilderness. Sion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.