O VOS OMNES)
(see octavo CQ2703)
O vos omnes qui transitis per viam,
Attendite, et videte
Si est dolor sicut dolor meus
Quoniam vindemiavit me,
Ut locutus est Dominus,
In die irae furoris sui.Idcirco ego plorans,
Et oculus meus deducens aquam,
Quia longe factus est a me consolator,
Convertens animam meam.
Facti sunt filii mei perditi,
Quoniam invaluit inimicus.Vide, Domine, quoniam tribulor:
Conturbatus est venter meus,
Subversum est cor meum in memetipsa,
Quoniam amaritudine plena sum.
Fors interfecit gladius,
Et domi mors similis est.Lamentationes Ieremiae Profeta 1:12, 16, 20.
All you who pass by on the way,
Look and see
If there is any sorrow like my sorrow
Which has befallen me,
As the Lord has spoken
On the day of his fierce anger.For this I am weeping,
And my eyes flow with tears,
That anyone who could comfort me has been made far from me,
Who could revive my soul.
My children have become desolate
Because the enemy has increased in strength.See, O Lord, my distress:
My stomach churns,
My heart is in my mouth,
For my bitterness is complete.
Outside the sword destroys,
And in the house it is like death.The Lamentations of Jeremiah 1:12, 16, 20.
* Translation copyright © by Cantus Quercus Press, 2007. All rights reserved.
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