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Preces Quotidianae

Confession of Forsaking Mercy

The soul confesses clinging to empty vanities and being cast from God's sight, referencing Amos 7.

And may this not be so.1 . Amos 7.2 Clinging to empty vanities, I have forsaken my mercy.34 2. 8. And I have been cast away from the sight of your eyes.5 4.

Remembering the Lord in Anguish

In anguish, the soul remembers the Lord, appeals for mercy and the removal of iniquities, and fears hearing God's report from Habakkuk and Micah.

But when my soul was in anguish within me, I remembered the Lord. I will look again toward your holy Temple; let my life be lifted up from corruption. Who is a God like you, who takes away iniquity and passes over the iniquities of your inheritance?✦6 You will not keep your fury forever as a lasting charge, because you delight in mercy.✦7 Turn back and have mercy on us, Lord; put away our iniquities, and cast all our sins into the depths of the sea, according to your truth and mercy.✦8 Lord, I have heard your report, and I was afraid.✦9 iii.10

Trembling at God's Work

The soul considers God's work and is terrified, yet pleads for mercy through the covenant blood and the cleansing fountain from Zechariah.

2. I considered your work, and I was terrified.✦ When you have been angry, you will remember mercy.11 Look at me, Lord: clothed in filthy garments, and Satan standing at my right hand. But, Lord, in the blood of your Covenant—Zech.✦12 ix. 11. in the open fountain for the washing of every impurity.✦13

Petition for Cleansing

The soul asks God to take away sins and cleanse the filth of transgression, echoing Psalm 50.

1. Take away my sins, and cleanse the filth of my transgression.14 — And.15

Read the original Latin

et hoe ne sit. . 4mos vii. 5, Custodiens vanitates frustra, misericordiam meam dereliqui, Jom. ii. 8. et abjectus sum a conspectu oculorum tuorum ; (Vers. 4.]

Sed cum angustiaretur in me anima mea, . recordatus sum Domini. Iterum aspiciam adversus Templum sanctum tuum, sublevetur de corruptione vita mea. ( Quis Deus similis tui, qui aufers iniquitatem, et transis iniquitates hzereditatis tuz? Non servabis usque in testimonium furorem tuum, quoniam volens misericordiam es tu. Revertere et miserere nostri, Domine, depone iniquitates nostras, et projce in profundum maris omnia peccata nostra, secundum veritatem, et secundum misericordiam tuam. Domine, audivi auditionem tuam, et timui, bac. nm.

2. Consideravi opus tuum, et expavi. Cum iratus fueris, misericordie recordaberis. Ecce me, Domine, indutum vestibus sordidis, et Satanam stantem a dextris meis. Sed, Domine, in sanguine Testamenti tui, Zach. ix. 11. in fonte patente in ablutionem omnis impuritatis, .

1.] Tolle peccata mea,

et munda sordes przvaricationis mex. —

AND.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Mic.7.18 — Who is a God like you, who takes away iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.
  2. ↩Mic.7.18 — Who is a God like you, who takes away iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.
  3. ↩Mic.7.19 — He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. And you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
  4. ↩Hab.3.2 — LORD, I have heard your report; I stand in awe, LORD. Your work—revive it in the midst of the years; in the midst of the years make it known. In wrath remember mercy.
  5. ↩Hab.3.2 — LORD, I have heard your report; I stand in awe, LORD. Your work—revive it in the midst of the years; in the midst of the years make it known. In wrath remember mercy.
  6. ↩Zech.9.11 — As for you also, by the blood of your covenant I have sent out your prisoners from the pit in which there is no water.
  7. ↩Zech.13.1 — On that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Reading hoe as hoc (et hoc ne sit), continuing the prior petition Miserere, Domine, super hoc.
  2. 2 ↩Reading '4mos vii.' as the biblical citation 'Amos vii.' (OCR A→4).
  3. 3 ↩Leading '5,' treated as apparatus/OCR debris. Trailing 'Jom.' read as the citation mark 'Jon.' (Jonah).
  4. 4 ↩First-person dereliqui adapts the biblical line about those who keep vanities forsaking their own mercy; 'my mercy' means the mercy given me / my share in mercy, not divine mercy as an attribute I own.
  5. 5 ↩Trailing '(Vers.' treated as a liturgical Versicle marker cut off by bad segmentation, not part of the spoken prayer line.
  6. 6 ↩Source shows OCR-corrupt forms hzereditatis tuz; translated as hereditatis tuae (your inheritance).
  7. 7 ↩usque in testimonium is rendered as forever as a lasting charge/witness (holding anger as a permanent indictment), following the Micah 7:18 sense of not retaining wrath.
  8. 8 ↩Source projce read as proice/projice (cast).
  9. 9 ↩Trailing bac is almost certainly a garbled scripture citation tag (likely Hab./Habac.), not part of the prayer text; omitted from the English sentence.
  10. 10 ↩Source nm. is likely a garbled chapter citation (probably iii. for Habakkuk 3), given the surrounding Habakkuk 3:2 material.
  11. 11 ↩Source misericordie treated as misericordiae (genitive with recordor): 'you will remember mercy.'
  12. 12 ↩Latin is a prepositional fragment without an explicit finite verb in this sentence unit; rendered as a solemn petitionary phrase continuing the address, not by inventing a governing verb.
  13. 13 ↩Trailing comma-period sequence after impuritatis treated as source debris; no extra clause invented to complete a missing verb.
  14. 14 ↩Source reading 'przvaricationis mex' is treated as the intended 'praevaricationis meae' (of my transgression).
  15. 15 ↩Source is the bare English fragment AND., not Latin; left as And. without inventing missing prayer text.

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