Latin scholars: Looking for a quick literal translation

[Mama Anna]

I've got a line from Mozart's Laudate Dominum for which I'm wanting to find a word-by-word translation. Anyone up for it?

 

"Quoniam confirmata est supernos misericordia ejus"

 

The translation given is "For his merciful kindness is great toward us." I'm not good enough at Latin (I've never had it, just sung it a lot) to figure out what means what.

 

Help?

 

TIA!

Mama Anna

[corduroy]

My Latin is older than I care to admit, and I learned with classical texts, not ecclesiastical Latin... which is a long way of saying I could be very wrong, but:

 

"Quoniam confirmata est supernos misericordia ejus"

 

I would write that as:

 

quoniam confirmata est super nos misericordia eius

 

So, in the same order:

 

whereas confirmed is upon us compassion his

 

Or, less clunkily, but more literally than the translation given, something like "Whereas his compassion toward us is confirmed".

[Mama Anna]

Ha! Great - thank you so much!!

 

Mama Anna

My Latin is older than I care to admit, and I learned with classical texts, not ecclesiastical Latin... which is a long way of saying I could be very wrong, but:

 

"Quoniam confirmata est supernos misericordia ejus"

 

I would write that as:

 

quoniam confirmata est super nos misericordia eius

 

So, in the same order:

 

whereas confirmed is upon us compassion his

 

 

Note that "confirmata est" is a perfect passive compound verb, not est + a participle. So, the literal translation is "has been confirmed".

[Mama Anna]

Thanks for the clarification!

 

Mama Anna