Perfice gressus meos

General information

Offertory for Sexagesima and Pentecost VI
Text is from Psalm 17 (Clementine Vulgate 16).

Settings by composers

• Arjan van Baest SATB
• Orlando di Lasso SATB
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SATTB
• Samuel Webbe SATB
• Franz Xaver Witt AB or ST

 

Text and translations

Latin text 16:5  Perfice gressus meos in semitis tuis: Ut non moveantur vestigia mea: 16:6b  Inclina aurem tuam et exaudi verba mea: 16:7  Mirifica misericordias tuas: qui salvos facis sperantes in te, Domine.

English translation 17:5  O hold thou up my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps slip not. 17:6b  Incline thine ear to me, and hearken unto my words. 17:7a  Shew thy marvellous loving-kindness, thou that art the Saviour of them which put their trust in thee: