PRijst God ons aller Heer,, Die 'diepe Meyr verdroogt,
The Lord of Tides and Deliverance
A call to praise God for His sovereign control over the natural elements and the sea.
Praise God, the Lord of us all, who dries up the deep sea, who there raises the water again for His honor, and leads according to His will through ebb and flood, so that many a person stands more than amazed at such a deed.1
The Vanishing of the Oppressor
A prophetic declaration that those who bring violence and oppression will be brought to nothing like smoke.
The one who has so filled the land with murder and fire, who has lived so outrageously among the people on every side—who has stripped them bare and oppressed them—shall itself go bowed and be dragged away now, and vanish like the smoke as well.✦2
A Song of Zeeland's Freedom
A command for the people of Zeeland to rejoice in their liberation from Spanish tyranny and remember God's work.
Sing praise and thanks to God, people of Zeeland! And keep this good work in mind all your earthly life long, to the honor of God. Be joyful together and rejoice in the Lord's name that you are free of the Spanish brood with their proud arrogance.3
Read the original Latin
PRijst God ons aller Heer,, Die 'diepe Meyr verdroogt, Die daer tot syner eer,, Het water weer verhoogt, End' leyde n doet,, Na synen we n sch, Door Ebb' en vloet,, Dat menich me n sch, Van sulcken daet,, Meer als verwondert staet.
Die't Land met moort en brand So seer vervullet heeft, Met't volck aen elcken kant So schendig heeft geleeft, Dat heeft gepluckt En onderdruckt, Sal self gebuckt Om vard' geruckt Nu gaen, ende oock Verdwynen als de roock.
Singt Gode lof en danck, Zeelanders! en dees deucht U aerdsche leven lanck Ter eeren Gods geheugt, Syt vrolyck t'saem En u verblyt In 's Heeren naem Dat ghy syt quyt Het Spaensch gebroet Met haren trotsen moet.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Ps.37.20;Ps.68.2;Hos.13.3 — But the wicked will perish; the enemies of the LORD, like the glory of the pastures, they will vanish; in smoke they will vanish. Ps.68.2 — Let God arise; let his enemies be scattered, and let those who hate him flee before him. Hos.13.3 — Therefore they shall be like the morning cloud and like the early dew that passes away — like chaff that is driven from the threshing floor, and like smoke from a chimney.
Notes
- 1 ↩Early Dutch print spacing is broken in the source (leyde n / we n sch / me n sch); read as leyden, wensch, and mensch.
- 2 ↩Early modern contraction 'vard'' is read as vaard'/vaart (departure, journey): hauled/dragged off for leaving. Sense is forced removal rather than voluntary travel.
- 3 ↩deucht (modern deugd) can mean virtue, merit, or a good deed; here it most plausibly names God's deliverance as a good work to remember, not abstract moral excellence.
Nederlandtsche Gedenck-clanck (Netherlands Memorial Songs) companion
Never lose the rhythm again
Chosen Portion delivers your morning, midday and night office to your phone — the Hours, without the bells.
Chosen Portion is a modern Book of Hours: it turns the fixed-hour structure this collection preserves into scheduled, tappable daily prayer on your phone.
- Three daily prayer moments scheduled around your real calendar, not a monastery's
- Psalms and historic prayers sequenced for you — no page-flipping or decision fatigue
- A visible streak of completed offices, so the rhythm compounds instead of collapsing