Psalm 130: De Profundis Clamavi - G. Rovetta

The soul’s cry for forgiveness. Appointed for use on Ash Wednesday. Its use on Christmas Day was peculiar to Venice.

Rovetta spent his entire life at St Mark’s, where his father was an instrumentalist on the pay roll. He started in the choir as a boy treble, then became an instrumentalist, and then a bass singer. In 1627 he succeeded Alessandro Grandi as first organist, and then he succeeded Monteverdi as Maestro di Capella -  a position he held until his death. 

De profundis clamavi ad te Dominum:

Domine, exaudi vocem meam.

Fiant aures tuae intendentes:

in vocem deprecationis meae.

Si iniquitates obvervaveris Domine:

Domine quis sustinebit?

Quia apud te propitiatio est:

et propter legem tuam.

Sustinui te Domine; sustinuit anima mea:

in verbo eius.

Speravit anima mea in Domino:

a custodia matutina usque ad noctem.
 

Speret Israel in Domino quia apud Dominum Misericordia: et copiosa apud eum redemptio.

Et ipse redimet Israel ex omnibus iniquitatibus eius.

Gloria Patri et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto: sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Out of the deep have I called unto thee O Lord:

Lord, hear my voice.

O let thine ears consider well:

the voice of my complaint.

If thou Lord wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss:

O Lord who may abide it?

For there is mercy with thee:

therefore shalt thou be feared.

I look for the Lord; my soul doth wait for him:

in his word is my trust.

My soul fleeth unto the Lord:

before the morning watch I say, before the morning watch.

O Israel trust in the Lord for with the Lord there is mercy: and with him is plenteous redemption.

And he shall redeem Israel from all his sins.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost: as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Antiphon

De fructu ventris tui: ponam super sedem tuam.

Of the fruit of thy body: shall I set upon the seat.