Perfice gressus meos

General information

Offertory for Sexagesima and Pentecost VI
Text is from Psalm 17 (Clementine Vulgate 16).

Notes on selected settings

• Franz Xaver Witt AB or ST

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Arjan van Baest — Perfice gressus meos  Latin SATB
• Orlando di Lasso — Perfice gressus meos  Latin SATB
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Perfice gressus meos  Latin SATTB
• Samuel Webbe — Perfice gressus meos  Latin SATB
• Franz Xaver Witt — Perfice gressus meos  Latin AB

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: