Parce Domine

Have Mercy, Lord

Parce Domine

Have mercy, LordParce, Domine
Have mercy on your peopleParce populo tuo
Don’t be angry with usNe in æternum
Forever and everIrascaris nobis

Let’s turn away your wrathFlectamus iram vindicem
Let’s cry out before the JudgePloremus ante Judicem
Let’s shout with humble voicesClamemus ore supplici
Let’s all say, bowed downDicamus omnes cernui

Have mercy, LordParce, Domine
Have mercy on your peopleParce populo tuo
Don’t be angry with usNe in æternum
Forever and everIrascaris nobis

We’ve offended with our sinsNostris malis offendimus
Your mercy, GodTuam Deus clementiam
Pour it down on us from aboveEffunde nobis desuper
Grant us forgivenessRemissor indulgentiam

Have mercy, LordParce, Domine
Have mercy on your peopleParce populo tuo
Don’t be angry with usNe in æternum
Forever and everIrascaris nobis

Give us a time of graceDans tempus acceptabile
Let the streams of tears flowDa lacrimarum rivulis
To wash the heart’s sacrificeLavare cordis victimam
That love may burn brightQuam læta adurat caritas

Have mercy, LordParce, Domine
Have mercy on your peopleParce populo tuo
Don’t be angry with usNe in æternum
Forever and everIrascaris nobis

Listen, kind CreatorAudi, benigne Conditor
Our prayers with tearsNostras preces cum fletibus
In this sacred fastIn hoc sacro jejunio
Poured out for forty daysFusas quadragenario

Have mercy, LordParce, Domine
Have mercy on your peopleParce populo tuo
Don’t be angry with usNe in æternum
Forever and everIrascaris nobis

Searcher of our heartsScrutator alme cordium
You know our weaknessesInfirma tu scisvirium
When we return to youAd te reversis exhibe
Show us the grace of forgivenessRemissionis gratiam

Have mercy, LordParce, Domine
Have mercy on your peopleParce populo tuo
Don’t be angry with usNe in æternum
Forever and everIrascaris nobis