Impetum inimicorum ne timueritis

General information

A text variously allotted to Quadragesima or to the Feast of the Maccabees

Settings by composers

• Jacob Handl SSSAAATTTBBB (short form)
• Silvio Marazzi SSB (long form)
• Tiburtio Massaino SSATTB (short form)

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Attaignant 1528) — Impetum inimicorum (Anonymous (Attaignant 1528))
• Johannes de Cleve — Impetum inimicorum

Text and translations

Latin text Impetum inimicorum ne timueritis. Memores estote quomodo salvi facti sunt patres nostri [Memento te mirabilium eius quae fecit Pharaoni et exercitui eius] in mari Rubro. Et nunc clamemus in cœlum et miserebitur nostri Deus noster.

English translation Fear not the onslaught of thine enemies. Remember how our fathers were saved [Remember the miracle he performed against Pharoah and his armies] in the Red Sea. And now let us shout to heaven, and may our Lord God be merciful. (Trans. Timmi O'Danaos & Donna Ferrentes)