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Listen to Jephtha, Pt. 2: No. 37, Can Heav'n Delight in Guiltless Blood? by Andrew Staples, Mary Bevan, Early Opera Company & Christian Curnyn

Jephtha, Pt. 2: No. 37, Can Heav'n Delight in Guiltless Blood?

Andrew Staples, Mary Bevan, Early Opera Company & Christian Curnyn

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Andrew Staples

Tenor

Mary Bevan

Soprano

Early Opera Company

Early Opera Company

Ensemble

Christian Curnyn

Christian Curnyn

Conductor

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Maurice Greene

Composer

John Hoadly

Lyrics

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Jonathan Cooper

Jonathan Cooper

Editing Engineer

Alexander James

Alexander James

Assistant Recording Engineer

Lyrics

"Jephtha

Can Heav’n delight in Guiltless Blood?

Shall Jephtha,

The Judge of Israel, like the Nations round,

Offer his Child, and Israel’s God blaspheme

With Moluch’s horrid rites? Ah! No.

Daughter

No more,

Hast thou not Sworn? Is not thy Vow receiv’d

By Israel’s God, and Thou return’d with

Conquest?

Jephtha

At such a Deed my very Nature starts,

And Reason stands irresolute. Away,

I will defeat my Vow; and rather fall

My Self the Sacrifice.

Daughter

Ah! No,

Never shall Jephtha’s Race to Israel’s Sons

Be fatal deem’d, nor will I be the Cause

Of that sure Vengeance, that must needs await

Thy broken Vow, sworn in the Face of Heav’n.

Jephtha

O matchless Virtue! Here, ye Sons of Israel,

Behold your Victim.

All

Unexampled Maid!

Jephtha

O might I die for Thee! how should I fall,

A willing Sacrifice!

Daughter

That must not be.

Well dost thou teach me, that the Pangs of Death

Are naught, when Israel and a Father asks ’em.

Yet, e’er I fall, grant this my last Request."

Written by: John Hoadly, Maurice Greene

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