Music for Crying: Lectio 2 (2nd Requiem Reading) for 6 Voices: Taedet animam meam #classicalmusic #renaissance — Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) — David Hill/Westminster Cathedral Choir

Taedet animam meam vitae meae dimittam adversum me eloquium meum loquar in amaritudine animae meae

Dicam Deo noli me condemnare indica mihi cur me ita iudices

Numquid bonum tibi videtur si calumnieris et opprimas me opus manuum tuarum et consilium impiorum adiuves

Numquid oculi carnei tibi sunt aut sicut videt homo et tu videbis

Numquid sicut dies hominis dies tui et anni tui sicut humana sunt tempora

Ut quaeras iniquitatem meam et peccatum meum scruteris

Et scias quia nihil impium fecerim cum sit nemo qui de manu tua possit eruere

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My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul:

I will say to God, "Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.

What profit is it to You, for You to be cruel, to give up the work of Your Hands, while looking kindly on the designs of evil-doers?

Have You eyes of flesh? Or, do You see as Man sees?

Are Your days as the days of a mortal? Or, are Your years as Man's days?

Why do You search after my iniquity, and inquire into my sin; since You know that I am not wicked, and that there is none that can escape Your Hand?"

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Job:10: 1-7