Description on Youtube:
Sofia Vokalensemble performing the beautiful Miserere by composer James MacMillan, on June 9th 2016.
Sheet music:
http://bit.ly/28Z5S76
Lyrics:
Psalm 50 (51)
Miserere mei, Deus:
secundum magnam misericordiam tuam.
Et secundum multitudinem miserationum tuarum:
deleiniquitatem meam.
Amplius lava me ab iniquitate mea:
et a peccato meo munda me.
Quoniam iniquitatem meam ego cognosco:
et peccatum meum contra me est semper.
Tibi soli peccavi, et malum coram te feci: ut
justificeris in sermonibus tuis, et vincas cum judicaris.
Ecce enim in iniquitatibus conceptus sum:
et in peccatis concepit me mater mea.
Ecce enim veritatem dilexisti:
incerta et occulta sapientiæ tuæ manifestasti mihi.
Asperges me hyssopo, et mundabor:
lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.
Auditui meo dabis gaudium et lætitiam:
et exsultabunt ossa humiliata.
Averte faciem tuam a peccatis meis:
et omnes iniquitates meas dele.
Cor mundum crea in me, Deus:
et spiritum reotum innova in visceribus meis.
Ne projicias me a facie tua:
et spiritum sanctum tuum ne auferas a me.
Redde mihi lætitiam salutaris tui:
et spiritu principali confirma me.
Docebo iniquos vias tuas:
et impii ad te convertentur.
Libera me de sanguinibus, Deus,
Deus salutis meæ:
et exsultabit lingua mea justitiam tuam.
Domine, labia mea aperies:
et os meum annuntiabit laudem tuam.
Quoniam si voluisses sacrificium, dedissem utique:
holocaustis non delectaberus.
Sacrificium Deo spiritus contribulatus:
cor contritum et humiliatum, Deus, non despicies.
Benigne fac, Domine, in bona voluntate tua Sion:
ut ædificentur muri Jerusalem.
Tunc aceeptabis sacrificium justitiæ, oblationes
et holocausta:
tunc imponent super altare tuum vitulos.
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Have mercy upon me, O God:
after your great goodness.
According to the multitude of your mercies:
do away my offences.
For I acknowledge my faults:
and my sin is ever before me.
Against you only have I sinned:
and done this evil in your sight.
That you might be justified in your saying:
and clear when you are judged.
Behold, I was shaped in wickedness:
and in sin did my mother conceive me.
But lo, you require truth in the inward parts:
and will make me to understand wisdom secretly.
You will purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:
you will wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
You will make me hear of joy and gladness:
that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
Turn your face from my sins:
and put out all my misdeeds.
Make me a clean heart, O God:
and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from your presence:
and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
O give me the comfort of your help again:
and establish me with your free Spirit.
Then shall I teach your ways unto the wicked:
and sinners shall be converted unto you.
Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God,
you that are the God of my health:
and my tongue shall sing of thy righteousness.
You will open my lips, O Lord:
and my mouth shall show your pra
