Si ambulavero

General information

Offertory for Pentecost XIX.
Source of text is Psalm 137:7 (Vulgate).

Settings by composers

• Orlando di Lasso SATTB
• Wilhelm Meyer Lutz SATB & organ with S solo
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SATTB
• Jeffrey Quick SATB
• Valentin Rathgeber SATB & bc (opt. colla parte instruments)
• Jacob Regnart SAT
• Ascanio Trombetti ATTBB

Text and translations

Latin text Si ambulavero in medio tribulationis, vivificabis me, Domine, et super iram inimicorum meorum extendes manum tuam. et salvum me fecit dextera tua.

English translation  If I walk in the midst of tribulation you shall preserve my life, O Lord; you shall stretch forth your hand against the fury of my enemies; your right hand has delivered me.