Parce mihi

General information

The First Lesson at Matins of the Office of the Dead. Taken from Job 7:16-21.

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 mihimetipsi gravis? 21  Cur non tollis peccatum meum, et quare non aufers iniquitatem meam? Ecce nunc in pulvere dormiam: et si mane me quæsieris, non subsistam.

English translation 16b  Spare me, O Lord, for my days are as nothing. 17  What is man, that thou shouldst magnify him? Or that thou shouldst set thine heart upon him? 18  Thou dost visit him at daybreak, and test him suddenly. 19  How long wilt thou not spare me, nor let me go, that I might swallow my spittle? 20  I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O keeper of men? Why hast thou set me against thee, and I am become burdensome to myself? 21  Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my wickedness? Behold, now I shall sleep in the dust; and if thou seekest me in the morning, I shall not be.