Text: Matthew 6:28-30
Language: English
Use: General Sacred
Ensemble: SATB
Accompaniment: Organ
Genre: Sacred
Duration: 3.5 minutes
Page Count: 6
Catalog Number: NWC-151
Available from J. W. Pepper.
Note
Consider the Lilies is for SATB choir with organ accompaniment, the words from Matthew 6:28-30. Set like a tone painting, the music illustrates the text in sound, with unusual harmonies, portamento, and spoken words for effect. Challenging, for choirs with advanced capability.
Text:
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither toil nor spin, and yet I say to you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Therefore if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Matthew 6:28-30