Perfice gressus meos
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General information
Offertory for Sexagesima and Pentecost VI
Text is from Psalm 17 (Clementine Vulgate 16).
Settings by composers
- Arjan van Baest SATB
- Orlando di Lasso SATB
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SATTB
- Franz Xaver Witt AB
Original text and translations
Latin text 16:5 Perfice gressus meos in semitis tuis: Ut non moveantur vestigia mea: 16:6b Inclina aurem tuam et exaudi verba mea: 16:7 Mirifica misericordias tuas: qui salvos facis sperantes in te, Domine. |
English translation 17:5 O hold thou up my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps slip not. 17:6b Incline thine ear to me, and hearken unto my words. 17:7a Shew thy marvellous loving-kindness, thou that art the Saviour of them which put their trust in thee: |