Richard Eldon Barber - Parce Domine - текст песни (слова)

Refrain:
 Parce, Domine, parce populo tuo:
 ne in aeternum irascaris nobis.
 
 1. Flectamus iram vindicem,
 Ploremus ante Judicem;
 Clamemus ore supplici,
 Dicamus omnes cernui:
 
 2. Nostris malis offendimus
 Tuam Deus clementiam
 Effunde nobis desuper
 Remissor indulgentiam.
 
 3. Dans tempus acceptabile,
 Da lacrimarum rivulis
 Lavare cordis victimam,
 Quam laeta adurat caritas.
 
 4. Audi, benigne Conditor,
 Nostras preces cum fletibus
 In hoc sacro jejunio,
 Fusas quadragenario.
  
 
 REFRAIN: Spare, Lord, spare your people:
 Be not angry with us forever
 
 1. Let us appease His wrath,
 Beg for mercy from our Judge;
 Cry to Him in supplication,
 Let us all prostrate and say:
 
 2. By our sins we have offended
 against your mercy, O God
 Pour forth from above
 O pardoning One, your forgiveness
 
 3. Having given us this acceptable time,
 grant that in the water of our tears
 we may purify our heart and that it may become
 a joyful sacrifice offered out of love.
 
 4. O Merciful Creator, hear
 our prayers with our weeping
 in this holy time of
 forty day fasting.