{"id":755,"date":"2026-06-11T22:50:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/?page_id=755"},"modified":"2026-06-13T14:46:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:46:39","slug":"looft-den-heere","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/composities\/looft-den-heere\/","title":{"rendered":"Looft den HEERE (Praise the LORD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This piece is written to praise God, because He is good. In this piece, a summation is given of aspects in which His goodness is revealed. This happens in an antiphonal way: one choir sings something about Gods goodness in Dutch, after which the other choir agrees to this in French by singing that His goodness lasts forever. The bilingualism is chosen because of the difference in sound between these languages: Dutch has a 'powerful' sound, which suits the verses, while French is flowing, which suits Gods goodness that is poured over the audience from above, as it were. Praise the LORD, soli Deo gloria!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Instrumentation<\/strong><\/td><td>Mixed Choir (SATBarB), Soloists (SATB), Organ, Harp, 4 Violins, 2 Violas, 2 Celli<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Duration<\/strong><\/td><td>10 minutes<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Year of composition<\/strong><\/td><td>2025<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Premiere<\/strong><\/td><td>11 October 2025<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Recording<\/strong> \u2013 11 October 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Looft den HEERE - Harmen van den Berg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GzkDytgXn54?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted has-manrope-font-family\"><strong>Text<br><\/strong>Looft den HEERE, want Hij is goed;<br><em>   Oui, sa bont\u00e9 dure \u00e9ternellement.<br><\/em>Looft den God der goden;<br>Looft den Heere der heren;<br><em>   Oui, sa bont\u00e9 dure \u00e9ternellement.<br><\/em>Die grote wonderen doet, Hij alleen,<br>Die de hemel met inzicht maakte,<br>Die de aarde boven het water uitspande,<br><em>   Oui, sa bont\u00e9 dure \u00e9ternellement.<br><\/em>Die de grote lichten maakte,<br>de zon tot heerschappij over de dag,<br>de maan en sterren tot heerschappij over de nacht,<br><em>   Oui, sa bont\u00e9 dure \u00e9ternellement.<br><\/em>Die aan ons dacht in onze nederige staat,<br>en ons aan onze tegenstanders ontrukte,<br>Die aan alle vlees voedsel geeft,<br><em>   Oui, sa bont\u00e9 dure \u00e9ternellement.<br><\/em>Looft den God des hemels;<br><em>   Oui, sa bont\u00e9 dure \u00e9ternellement.<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted has-manrope-font-family\"><strong>Translation (English)<br><\/strong>Praise the LORD, for He is good;<br><em>   Yes, His goodness lasts eternally.<\/em><br>Praise the God of gods;<br>Praise the Lord of lords<br><em>   Yes, His goodness lasts eternally.<\/em><br>Who dos great wonders, only He,<br>Who made the heaven with understanding<br>Who spread out the earth above the water,<br><em>   Yes, His goodness lasts eternally.<\/em><br>Who made the great lights,<br>the sun to rule by day,<br>the moon and stars to rule by night,<br><em>   Yes, His goodness lasts eternally.<\/em><br>Who remembered us in our low estate,<br>and redeemed us from our enimies,<br>Who gives food to all flesh,<br><em>  Yes, His goodness lasts eternally.<\/em><br>Praise the God of heaven;<br><em>  Yes, His goodness lasts eternally.<\/em><\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dit stuk is geschreven om God te loven, omdat Hij goed is. In dit stuk wordt een opsomming gegeven van aspecten waaruit Zijn goedheid blijkt. Dit gebeurt in de vorm van een beurtzang: er wordt steeds door het ene koor in het Nederlands iets over Gods goedheid gezongen, waarna het andere koor in het Frans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":534,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-755","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/755\/revisions\/875"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}