Deliver Me

“Deliver Me, Oh Lord” is based on various parts of Psalm 140. In this psalm the people are praying for what they hoped God would do to their enemies. A god coming to their aid to violently exact revenge for the wrongs that had been done to them.

This setting is styled after a piece that I performed with Deral Johnson and the UWO Faculty of Music Singers while I was at university. The piece is Jean Berger’s (Berger - French pronunciation) “Deliver Me, Oh God”. I now only have a vague recollection of this piece, and both google and YouTube searches don’t seem to turn anything up. When we performed it at university, it might have been an unpublished composition, as I believe Deral Johnson and Dr. Berger were friends.

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