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; '''English Translation'''<ref>Tratto da https://enwww.wikipediacpdl.org/wiki/Improperiaindex.php/Popule_meus</ref>My O my people, what have I done to you?<br />How Or how have I offended you? Answer me!.<br />
Because I led thee out of the land of Egypt:<br />
thou hast prepared a Cross for thy Saviour.<br />
O Holy God.<br />
O Holy God.<br />
O Holy Strong One.<br />
O Holy Strong One.<br />
O Holy and Immortal, have mercy upon us.<br />
O Holy and Immortal, have mercy upon us.<br />
Because I led thee through the desert for forty years:<br />
and fed thee with manna, and brought thee into a land exceeding good:<br />
thou hast prepared a Cross for thy Saviour.<br />
O Holy God.<br />
O Holy God.<br />
O Holy Strong One.<br />
O Holy Strong One.<br />
O Holy and Immortal, have mercy upon us.<br />
O Holy and Immortal, have mercy upon us.<br />
What more ought I to have done for thee, that I have not done?<br />
I planted thee, indeed, My most beautiful vineyard:<br />
and thou hast become exceeding bitter to me:<br />
for in my thirst thou gavest me vinegar to drink:<br />
and with a spear thou hast pierced the side of thy Saviour.<br />
O Holy God.<br />
O Holy God.<br />
O Holy Strong One.<br />
O Holy Strong One.<br />
O Holy and Immortal, have mercy upon us.<br />
O Holy and Immortal, have mercy upon us.<br />
For thy sake I scourged the firstborn of Egypt:<br />
Thou hast given me up to be scourged.<br />
O my people, what have I done to you?<br />
Or how have I offended you? Answer me.<br />
I led thee out of Egypt having drowned Pharaoh in the Red Sea:<br />
and thou hast delivered Me to the chief priests.<br />
O my people, what have I done to you?<br />
Or how have I offended you? Answer me.<br />
I opened the sea before thee:<br />
and thou hast opened my side with a spear.<br />
O my people, what have I done to you?<br />
Or how have I offended you? Answer me.<br />
I went before thee in a pillar of cloud:<br />
and thou hast led me to the judgment hall of Pilate.<br />
O my people, what have I done to you?<br />
Or how have I offended you? Answer me.<br />
I fed thee with manna in the desert;<br />
and thou hast assaulted me with blows and scourges.<br />
O my people, what have I done to you?<br />
Or how have I offended you? Answer me.<br />
I gave thee the water of salvation from the rock:<br />
and thou hast given me gall and vinegar to drink.<br />
O my people, what have I done to you?<br />
Or how have I offended you? Answer me.<br />
For thy sake I struck the kings of the Canaanites:<br />
and thou hast struck my head with a reed.<br />
O my people, what have I done to you?<br />
Or how have I offended you? Answer me.<br />
I gave thee a royal sceptre:<br />
and thou hast given a crown of thorns for my head.<br />
O my people, what have I done to you?<br />
Or how have I offended you? Answer me.<br />
I exalted thee with great strength;<br />
and thou hast hanged me on the gibbet of the cross.<br />
O my people, what have I done to you?<br />
Or how have I offended you? Answer me.<br />
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