other translations - Buxtehude

3 Aria S I
Hail, salvation of the world,
Hail, hail, dear Jesus!
On your cross would I hang
Truly, you know why
Give me your strength.

4 Aria S II
The nails in your feet, the hard blows
and so grievous marks
I embrace with love,
Fearful at the sight of you
Mindful of your wounds.

5 Arie B
Dulcis Jesu, pie Deus,
Ad te clamo licet reus,
praebe mihi te benignum,
ne repellas me indignum
de tuis sanctis pedibus.

6 Concerto 
(da capo: Ecce super montes)

7 Concerto (SSATB)
Salve mundi salutare,
salve, salve Jesu care!
Cruci tuae me aptare
vellem vere, tu scis quare,
da mihi tui copiam.

5 Aria B
Sweet Jesus, merciful God
I cry to you, in my guilt
Show me your grace,
Turn me not unworthy away
From your sacred feet.

6 Concerto 
(da capo: Ecce super montes)

7 Concerto (SSATB)
Hail, salvation of the world,
Hail, hail, dear Jesus!
On your cross would I hang
Truly, you know why,
Give me your strength.

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II. Ad Genua

1. Sonata

2 Concerto (SSATB)
Ad ubera portabimini,
et super genua blandicentur vobis.
(Isaiah 66:12)

II. To the Knees

1. Sonata

2 Concerto (SSATB)
You will be brought to nurse
and dandled on the knees.

3. Arie T
Salve Jesu, rex sanctorum,
spes votiva peccatorum,
crucis ligno tanquam reus,
pendens homo verus Deus,
caducis nutans genibus.

4. Arie A
Quid sum tibi responsurus,
actu vilis corde durus?
Quid rependam amatori,
qui elegit pro me mori,
ne dupla morte morerer.

3. Aria T
Hail Jesus, King of Saints
Hope of sinners' prayers,
like an offender on the wood of the cross,
a man hanging, true God,
Bending on failing knees!

4. Aria A
What answer shall I give you,
Vile as I am in deed, hard in my heart?
How shall I repay your love,
Who chose to die for me
Lest I die the second death?

5. Arie SSB
Ut te quaeram mente pura,
sit haec mea prima cura,
non est labor et gravabor,
sed sanabor et mundabor,
cum te complexus fuero.

6 Concerto 
(da capo: Ad ubera portabimini)

5. Aria SSB
That I may seek you with pure heart,
Be my first care,
It is no labour nor shall I be loaded down:
But I shall be cleansed,
When I embrace you.

6 Concerto 
(da capo: Ad ubera portabimini)

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III. Ad Manus

1. Sonata

2 Concerto (SSATB)
Quid sunt plagae istae
in medio manuum tuarum?
(Zechariah 13:6)

III. To the Hands

1. Sonata

2 Concerto SSATB
What are those wounds
in the midst of your hands?

3 Arie S I
Salve Jesu, pastor bone,
fatigatus in agone,
qui per lignum es distractus
et ad lignum es compactus
expansis sanctis manibus.

4 Arie S II
Manus sanctae, vos amplector,
et gemendo condelector,
grates ago plagis tantis,
clavis duris guttis sanctis
dans lacrymas cum osculis.

3 Aria S I
Hail, Jesus, good shepherd,
wearied in agony,
tormented on the cross
nailed to the cross
your sacred hands stretched out.

4 Aria S II
Holy hands, I embrace you,
and, lamenting, I delight in you,
I give thanks for the terrible wounds,
the hard nails, the holy drops,
shedding tears with kisses.

5 Arie ATB
In cruore tuo lotum
me commendo tibi totum,
tuae sanctae manus istae
me defendant, Jesu Christe,
extremis in periculis.

6 Concerto 
(da capo: Quid sunt plagae istae)

5 Aria ATB
Washed in your blood
I wholly entrust myself to you;
may these holy hands of yours
defend me, Jesus Christ,
in the final dangers.

6 Concerto 
(da capo: Quid sunt plagae istae)