O vos omnes

General Information

This text (from Lamentations 1:12) exists in a shorter form, as an antiphon, and a longer form, as a responsory (the fifth of the nine responsories for Matins of Holy Saturday).

A responsory is a sung response to a Scripture reading. It has two parts: a respond and a versicle. After the versicle (indicated below by V. and usually sung by a single voice or a smaller group), the second part of the respond (indicated below by a bullet) is repeated.

Original text and translations

Latin:

Antiphon:
O vos omnes qui transitis per viam:
attendite et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus.

Responsory:
O vos omnes qui transitis per viam:
attendite et videte:

• Si est dolor similis sicut dolor meus.

V. Attendite, universi populi, et videte dolorem meum.

• Si est dolor similis sicut dolor meus.

Translations

File:Flag-eng.png English:

Antiphon: O all ye that pass by the way,
attend and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow.

Responsory: O all ye that pass by the way,
attend and see:

• If there be any sorrow like to my sorrow.

V. Attend, all ye people, and see my sorrow:

• If there be any sorrow like to my sorrow.

File:Flag-tagalog.png Filipino/Tagalog translation:

O kayong mga nagdaraan, makinig,
at masdan ninyo kung may kapighatiang katulad ng kapighatian ko.

Settings by composers

• Pablo Casals
• Giovanni Croce
• Carlo Gesualdo
• José Joaquim Emerico Lobo de Mesquita
• Hieronymus Praetorius
• Francisco Valls
• Tomás Luis de Victoria

External links

IPASource.com: Link to PDF file with IPA pronunciation and word-by-word translation. Lamentations 1:12 in the Latin Bible.