Dies Irae from REQUIEM MASS by JUDGE SMITH

4. DIES IRAE

Dies iræ, dies illa
Solvet sæclum in favilla
Teste David cum Sibylla.
Quantus tremor est futures
Quando Judex est venturus
Cuncta stricte discussurus!
Tuba mirum spargens sonum
Per sepulchra regionum
Coget omnes ante thronum.
Mors stupebit et natura
Cum resurget creatura
Judicanti responsura.
Liber scriptus proferetur
In quo totum continetur
Unde mundus judicetur.
Judex ergo cum sedebit
Quidquid latet apparebit
Nil inultum remanebit.
Quid sum miser tunc dicturus?
Quem patronum rogaturus
Cum vix justus sit securus?
Rex tremendæ majestatis
Qui salvandos salvas gratis
Salva me, fons pietatis.

(Day of wrath and doom impending
David's word with Sibyl's blending
Heaven and earth in ashes ending.
Oh, what fear man's bosom rendeth
When from heaven the Judge descendeth
On whose sentence all dependeth.
Wondrous sound the trumpet flingeth
Through earth's sepulchres it ringeth
All before the throne it bringeth.
Death is struck, and nature quaking
All creation is awaking
To its Judge an answer making.
Lo, the book, exactly worded
Wherein all hath been recorded
Thence shall judgement be awarded.
When the Judge his seat attaineth
And each hidden deed arraigneth
Nothing unavenged remaineth.
What shall I, frail man, be pleading?
Who for me be interceding
When the just are mercy needing?
King of Majesty tremendous
Who dost free salvation send us
Fount of pity, then befriend us!

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