Quoties diem illum considero

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General information

Attributed to St Jerome.

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

Jacob Handl — Quoties diem illum considero Latin SAATB
Jacobus Vaet — Quoties diem illum considero Latin SATB

Text and translations

Latin text

Quóties diem illum consídero,
toto péctore contremísco.
Sive cómedo, sive enim bibo,
semper mihi vidétur illa tuba terríbilis
sonáre in aúribus meis.
Súrgite, mórtui, veníte ad judícium!

English translation

Whenever I think of that day [of judgment],
I tremble in my whole body.
Whether I am eating or drinking,
it always seems to me as if that dreadful trumpet
is ringing in my ears.
Arise, ye dead, and come to judgment!