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Therese Titiens, soprano soloist at the first performance.

Recit.

And when he had spent all,
there arose a mighty famine in that land,
and he began to be in want.
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country;
and he sent him into the fields to feed swine.
And he would fain have filled himself
with the husks that the swine did eat;
and no man gave unto him.

Aria

O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments!
Then had thy peace been like a river,
and thy righteousness,
and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea.

O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments!
Then had thy peace been like a river,
and thy righteousness,
and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea.

O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments!
Then had thy peace been like a river,
and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea,
as the waves, the waves of the sea.
Turn ye, turn ye, why will ye die?

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