Brian Tibbs Music

Latin Text (heard in Sacred Space I)

Quantus tremor est futurus,
quando iudex est venturus,
cuncta stricte discussurus!
Tuba mirum spargens sonum
coget omnes ante thronum.

Iudex ergo cum sedebit,
quidquid latet apparebit:
nil inultum remanebit.
Quid sum miser tunc dicturus?
Quem patronum rogaturus?

Dies irae, dies illa.

English Translation

What horror must invade the mind
when the approaching judge shall find
and sift the deeds of all mankind!
The mighty trumpet's wondrous tone
summon all before the throne.

For now before the Judge severe
all hidden things must plain appear;
no crime can pass unpunished here.
O what shall I, so guilty plead?
And who for me will intercede?

Day of wrath, dreadful day.

From https://www.preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Hymni/DiesIrae.html