Domine in auxilium

General information

Offertory for Pentecost XVI.
Text is based on Psalm 39:14b-15 (Vulgate).

Setting by composers

• Orlando di Lasso SATB
• Wilhelm Meyer Lutz SATB, with SATB soli.
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SATTB
• Alessandro Scarlatti SATB

Text and translations

Latin text Domine in auxilium meum respice. Confundantur et revereantur qui quaerunt animam meam ut auferant eam.

English translation Make haste, O Lord, to help me. Let them be ashamed and confounded together, that seek after my soul to destroy it.