Psalm 5 "Verhoort O Godt mijn woorden clachtich"

Hendrik Joosten Speuy (1575 - 1625) was a Dutch composer and organist. He was a contemporary of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. From 1595 till his death he was organist at the Grote Kerk in Dordrecht. In 1610 a tablature book with psalm settings (all bicinia) was published and dedicated to the Staten-Generaal (the Dutch Parliament), but later he dedicated it to the King James I of England. This bicinium on Psalm 5 was part of this collection.

Today Speuy mainly is overshadowed by Dutch composers like Sweelinck and Van Noordt. However, his compositions are worth playing.

The full text of the first verse of Psalm 5 (in the psalm rhyme of Jacobus Revius):
Verhoort o God mijn woorden clachtich
Laet die u eens ter ooren gaen,
En wilt de oorsaeck wel verstaen
Van mijn gesucht en beed' aendachtich,
O Heer almachtich.