🎵 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) 🎸 in Ancient Greek

Описание: You can now sing a modern Christian worship song in Ancient Greek! 10,000 Reasons (better known as 'Bless the Lord') was originally written by Matt Redman in 2012. Now ten years later, I've created an Ancient Greek translation, sung in Lucian pronunciation.

I tried to use examples of language collected from biblical literature wherever possible - "ευλόγει, ἡ ψυχή μου, τὸν Κύριον" "Bless the Lord, my soul" and "ᾷσον ᾷσμα καινόν" "Sing a new song" are verbatim quotations from the Psalms, "οψίας γενομένης" is a common phrase in the Gospels for "when it was evening", "βραδὺς εις οργήν" "slow to anger" is from James, "αδιαλείπτως" is the word for "unceasingly" in the command from 1 Thessalonians "pray unceasingly".

The titular line, "10,000 reasons" was relatively difficult to render in Ancient Greek, because the word for "reasons" (αιτίαι) has a somewhat negative connotation, implying "accusations, things you find fault with" (though it can be used in a positive sense too). I ended up choosing an abstract noun, "δόξαι" ("glories"), even though it sounds a bit odd in the plural, because I wanted the word to more strongly imply "reasons for worship" as opposed to "reasons for blame".

The backing track was provided by Sing King Karaoke - here is their original video:    • Matt Redman - 10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lo...  

I use the Lucian pronunciation, which is a historical reconstruction of Ancient Greek phonology from the time of the Roman Empire that preserves pitch accent and syllable quantity. For more information about Lucian Koine pronunciation and its historicity, click here:    • Lucian Pronunciation of Ancient Greek · ἡ ...  

I do not write the smooth breathing mark in my orthography of Ancient Greek. This is to give it greater contrast against the almost-identical looking rough breathing mark. Removing the smooth breathing enables the rough breathing mark to become more discernible to all sighted humans - with varying degrees of vision impairments - and at lower screen resolutions and smaller font sizes, in all lighting conditions.

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Lyrics:
Chorus
ευλόγει, ἡ ψυχή μου, τὸν Κύριον,
καί τὸ όνομα τὸ ἅγιον,
ᾷσον ᾷσμα καινόν, ἡ ψυχή μου,
τὸ όνομά σου προσκύνησω.

Verse 1
ανατέλλει ὁ ἥλιος, ανακαινῶν ἡμέρᾱν,
αῦθις ᾴσωμεν το ᾷσμά σου,
ὅσα γενήσεται, καὶ ὅσα έμπροσθέν μου,
ᾴδω οψίᾱς γενομένης.

Verse 2
εν ελέει πλούσιος εῖ καὶ βραδὺς εις οργήν
μεγὰ τὸ όνομά σου καὶ ελεήμων εῖ,
τὰ πάντα ελέη σου, ᾴσομαι εις τὸν αιῶνα,
μῡριάδα δόξᾱς εὑρίσκων.

Verse 3
ὅταν δὲ εκλείψει ἡ καρδίᾱ μου καὶ ἡ σάρξ μου
τὸ τέλος έγγικεν καὶ ὁ χρόνος μου,
ᾴσει ἡ ψυχή μου ευλογῶν αδιαλείπτως,
μῡριάδα έτη καὶ εις τὸν αιῶνα!