Prais'd be the Lord

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Prais'd be the Lord" - Andreas Scholl/Gabrieli/Paul McCreesh

Lyrics by：Anonymous

Composed by：George Frideric Händel

Prais'd be the Lord from him my wisdom springs

I bow in-raptur'd to the king of kings

He led me abject to th'imperial state

When weak and trembling for my future fate

Strengthen'd by him each foe with horror fled

Then impious joab at the altar bled

The death he oft deserv'd stern schimei found

And adonijah sunk beneath the wound

Forc'd by his crimes I spoke a brother's doom

Ah may his vices perish in his tomb