Vere languores nostros

Surely He Has Borne Our Infirmities

Voicing:
Mixed Choir → SATB

Accompaniment:
Unaccompanied

Function/Language(s):
Latin

Occasion:

Proper of Time → The Sacred Paschal Triduum → Friday of the Passion of the Lord

Publication Information:
Arista — AE 359 (1978)

Lyrics:

Vere languores nostros ipse tulit
et dolores nostros ipse portavit:
cujus livore sanati sumus,
Dulce lignum, dulces clavos, 
dulcia ferens pondera
quae sola fuisti digna sustinere 
Regem coelorum et Dominum.

English translation:
Surely he has borne our infirmities, 
and carried our sorrows,
by whose wound we have been healed.
O sweet wood, O sweet nails,
bearing so sweet a load,
you alone were worthy to bear 
the King and Lord of the heavens.

Submitted by: Brian Luckner Added: Nov 20, 2021 Last updated: Jan 26, 2022