Editing Dies irae (section)

===Other translations===
A number of English translations of the poem have been written and proposed for liturgical use. A very loose [[Protestantism|Protestant]] version was made by [[John Newton]]; it opens:

{{poemquote|Day of judgment! Day of wonders!
Hark! the trumpet's awful sound,
Louder than a thousand thunders,
Shakes the vast creation round!
How the summons will the sinner's heart confound!}}

[[Jan Kasprowicz]], a Polish poet, wrote a hymn entitled {{lang|la|"Dies iræ"}} which describes the [[Last Judgment|Judgment day]]. The first six lines (two stanzas) follow the original hymn's metre and rhyme structure, and the first stanza translates to "The trumpet will cast a wondrous sound".

The American writer [[Ambrose Bierce]] published a satiric version of the poem in his 1903 book ''Shapes of Clay'', preserving the original metre but using humorous and sardonic language; for example, the second verse is rendered:

{{poemquote|Ah! what terror shall be shaping
When the Judge the truth's undraping&nbsp;–
Cats from every bag escaping!}}

The Rev. Bernard Callan (1750–1804), an Irish priest and poet, translated it into Gaelic around 1800. His version is included in a Gaelic prayer book, ''The Spiritual Rose''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kennedy |first=Matthew |url={{GBurl|id=q6JVAAAAcAAJ}} |title=The Spiritual Rose; Or Method Of Saying The Rosaries Of The Most Holy Name Of Jesus And The Blessed Virgin, With Their Litanies: Also The Meditations And Prayers, Adapted To the Holy Way Of The Cross, &c. |date=1825 |publisher=Greacen, Printer |location=[[Monaghan]] |oclc=299179233 |ol=26201026M |access-date=2022-03-16 |via=[[Google Books]] |lang=en,Irish}}</ref>