IX. Ingemisco

IX. Ingemisco - Riccardo Muti/Luciano Pavarotti

Ingemisco tanquam reus

Culpa rubet vultus meus

Supplicanti parce Deus

Qui Mariam absolvisti

Et latronem exaudisti

Mihi quoque spem dedisti

Preces meae non sunt dignae

Sed tu bonus fac benigne

Ne perenni cremer igne

Inter oves locum praesta

Et ab haedis me sequestra

Statuens in parte dextra

Guilty now I pour my moaning

All my shame with anguish owning

Spare o God Thy suppliant groaning

Through the sinful woman shriven

Through the dying thief forgiven

Thou to me a hope hast given

Worthless are my prayers and sighing

Yet good Lord in grace complying

Rescue me from fires undying

With Thy favoured sheep o place me

Not among the goats abase me

But to Thy right hand upraise me