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Valentine, Timothy (1959 – )

Guitariste et compositeur américain, il écrit et arrange avec son frère [[Peter Valentine]], une pièce intitulée ''Lamentation'' pour chœur mixte SATB, solo et assemblée, accompagnement piano, ou guitare, fl. et vlc, qui s'inspire des Lamentations de Jérémie (2004), v. 2:2, 10-14, 18-19. 

I've always loved the Lamentations. I especially like the reference to them in Evelyn Waugh's novel, "Brideshead Revisited."

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:''Jerusalem, turn back to your God!''
::'''1'''. ''Come all you who pass by the way; come and look and see''
::''Whether there is ana agony like the pain that was given to me,''
::''For my eyes, affliction have seen on that great and terrible day.''
::''O Lord, turn to look an behold how degraded I stay.''
:''Jerusalem, turn back to your God!''
::'''2'''. ''Look upon my anguish, O Lord; all within me fails''
::''For my heart is grieved at the thought of this sin, when I think of the evil it caused.''
::''And behold, outside has the sword been used to vanquish my young,''
::''As inside the gates of my home the famine destroys.''
::''But I will call one thing to mind, as it is my reason to hope:''
::''Gods favors are not exhausted; his mercy will never end!''
:(Intermède guitare)
::'''3'''. ''Cry out from your heart to the Lord; daughter, Zion, cry!''
::''Let your tears become like a torrent that flows day and night; never wipe them dry.''
::''Let there be no respite for you as you pour your heart out to God''
::''And lift up your hands to the Lord, that your young be restored.''
::''Jerusalem, turn back to your God!''


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