page_title: Psalm 55
hierarchical_section_title: Psalm 55
caption_attribution_description: Antonín Dvořák's Biblícké Písně (Biblical Songs) Op. 99 (1884). Book 1 containing Songs 1-5. While Dvorak later orchestrated the work, this the complete original piano-and-voice version. While the massacre of the original music to fit the German and English is appalling, it does contain the original Czech, and the original music for the Czech. The German and English should probably be considered only as a translation. This is the first five songs (out of ten), the other five are printed in a second volume I have not yet tracked down. I haven't been able to find Book 2, unfortunately.
context_page_description: Psalm 55 is the 55th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version, "Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not thyself from my supplication". The Book of Psalms is the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament. In the Greek Septuagint version of the Bible, and in the Latin Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 54 in a slightly different numbering system. In Latin, it is known as "Exaudi Deus orationem meam". The psalm is a lament in which the author grieves because he is surrounded by enemies, and one of his closest friends has betrayed him.
  The psalm is a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Anglican and Protestant liturgies. Metrical hymns in English and German were derived from the psalm, and it has been set to music.
context_section_description: Psalm 55 is the 55th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version, "Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not thyself from my supplication". The Book of Psalms is the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament. In the Greek Septuagint version of the Bible, and in the Latin Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 54 in a slightly different numbering system. In Latin, it is known as "Exaudi Deus orationem meam". The psalm is a lament in which the author grieves because he is surrounded by enemies, and one of his closest friends has betrayed him.  
  The psalm is a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Anglican and Protestant liturgies. Metrical hymns in English and German were derived from the psalm, and it has been set to music.
caption: Beginning of a setting by Dvořák in German and Czech
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