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Prayers of Habakkuk

Translation--Please write this into your choral score

 

How long, O Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen?  Or cry out to you, “violence,” but you do not save?

Why do you make me look at injustice?  Why do you tolerate wrong?  Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds.

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and injustice prevails.  The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

Lord, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, O Lord.  Renew them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy.

 

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Usquequo Domine clamabo, et non exaudies? Vociferabor ad te vim patiens, et non salvabis?

Quare ostendisti mihi iniquitattem et laborem, videre praedam et injustitiam contra me? Et factum est judicium, et contradictio potentior.

Propter hoc lacerata est lex, et non pervenit usque ad finem judicium: quia impius praevalet adversus justum proptere egregitur judicium perversum.

Domine opus tuam, in medio annorum vivifica illud. In medio annorum notum facies: cum iritus fureis, misericordiae recordaberis.