Precatus est Moyses

General information

Offertory for Pentecost XII and OT 24.
Source of text is Exodus 32:11,13-14.

Notes on selected settings

• Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský SATB & orchestra (trumpets and strings)

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Orlando di Lasso — Precatus est Moyses  Latin SATB
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Precatus est Moyses  Latin SATTB
• Jeffrey Quick — Precatus est Moyses  Latin SATB
• Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský — Precatus est Moyzes  Latin SATB

Text and translations

Latin text Precatus est Moyses in conspectu Domini Dei sui, et dixit: Quare, Domine, irasceris in populo tuo: parce irae animae tuae: memento Abraham, Isaac, et Jacob, quibus jurasti dare terram fluentem lac et mel. Et placatus est Dominus de malignitate, quam dixit facere populo suo. Memores memorum laudate Deum. Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

English translation Moses prayed in the sight of the Lord his God, and said: Why, O Lord, art Thou angry with Thy people? Let the anger of Thy soul be appeased: remember Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to whom Thou sworest that Thou wouldst give the land flowing with milk and honey. And the Lord was appeased from the evil which He had threatened to do to His people. Be mindful to praise the Lord. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.