Carlo Gesualdo - Ecce vidimus eum
(1611)





Pomerium
Alexander Blachly, Director

from CD A Voice in the Wilderness: Mannerist Motets of the Renaissance

Ecce vidimus eum non habentem
speciem neque decorem: aspectus
ejus in eo non est: hic peccata nostra
portavit et pro nobis dolet: ipse
autem vulneratus est propter
iniquitates nostras:
Cujus livore sanati sumus.
VERSUS. Vere languores nostros
ipse tulit, et dolores nostros ipse
portavit.
  —Maundy Thursday, Responsory 3
Behold, we have seen him without
comeliness or beauty: his look is
gone from him: he has borne our
sins and suffered for us:
he was wounded
for our iniquities:
by his stripes we are healed.
VERSE. Truly he has borne
our infirmities and carried
our sorrows.