Parce mihi

General information

Source of text is Job 7:16-21, the first lesson at Matins of the Office of the Dead.

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Pedro de Cristo — Parce mihi a 4  Latin SATB
• Pedro de Cristo — Parce mihi a 8  Latin SATB.SATB
• Hernando Franco — Parce mihi, Domine  Latin SATB
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger — Parce mihi  Latin T
• Orlando di Lasso — Parce mihi (1565)  Latin SATB
• Orlando di Lasso — Parce mihi Domine (1582)  Latin SATB
• Orlando di Lasso — Peccavi quid faciam a 5  Latin SATTB
• Philippe de Monte — Parce mihi Domine  Latin SATTTB
• Cristóbal de Morales — Parce mihi, Domine  Latin SATB,SSAA,ATBB
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Parce mihi Domine  Latin SAATB
• Cipriano de Rore — Peccavi quid faciam tibi  Latin ATTTB,SATTB
• Antonio de Salazar — Parce mihi Domine  Latin SATB
• José de Torres — Parce mihi domine  Latin SATB.SATB

Text and translations

Latin text 16b  Parce mihi, Domine, nihil enim sunt dies mei. 17  Quid est homo, quia magnificas eum? Aut quid apponis erga eum cor tuum? 18  Visitas eum diluculo et subito probas illum. 19  Usquequo non parcis mihi, nec dimittis me, ut glutiam salivam meam? 20  Peccavi, quid faciam tibi, o custos hominum? Quare posuisti me contrarium tibi, et factus sum mihimet ipsi gravis? 21  Cur non tolles peccatum meum, et quare non aufers iniquitatem meam? Ecce, nunc in pulvere dormiam, et si mane me quaesieris, non subsistam.

English translation 16b  Let me alone; for my days are vanity. 17  What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? 18  And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? 19  How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? 20  I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself? 21  And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.