Tribularer si nescirem

Settings by composers

• Carlo Gesualdo SATTB
• Leone Leoni SATB.AATB (Adds variant 1)
• Tribularer si nescirem (Christoph Bernhard) SSATB solo, SSATB coro, fg, (+ 2 cornets, 3 tbn ad lib.) 2 vni, 2 vle, bc

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Girolamo Belli — Tribularer si nescirem
• Francesco Portinaro — Tribularer si nescirem

Text and translations

Latin text Tribularer, si nescirem misericordias tuas, Domine. Tu dixisti: nolo mortem peccatoris: sed ut magis convertatur et vivat. Variant 1 Qui Cananaeam et publicanum vocasti ad poenitentiam secundum multitudinem dolorum meorum in corde meo. Consolationes tuae laetificaverunt animam meam.

English translation I would be troubled were I ignorant of your compassion, Lord. You have said: I do not wish the death of the sinner, but that he might turn from his wickedness and live. Variant 1 You who called the Canaanite woman and the publican to repentance, [do to me] according to the multitude of sorrows in my heart. Your comforts delight my soul.