Veni, veni, Emmanuel

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1 Veni, veni Emanuel!
Captivum solve Israel!
Qui gemit in exilio,
Privatus Dei Filio.

Refrain:
Gaude, gaude, Emanuel
Nascetur pro te, Israel.

2 Veni, veni o oriens!
Solare nos adveniens,
Noctis depelle nebulas,
Dirasque noctis tenebras. [Refrain]

3 Veni, veni Adonai!
Qui populo in Sinai
Legem dedisti vertice,
In Maiestate gloriae. [Refrain]

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #14253

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First Line: Veni, veni, Emmanuel
Notes: English translation: See "O come, O come Emmanuel" by J. M. Neale; German translation (of "O come, O come Emmanuel"): See "O komm, o komm, du Morgenstern" by Otmar Schulz; Spanish translation: "Oh ven, oh ven Emanuel" by Federico Pagura
Copyright: Public Domain

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VENI EMMANUEL (Chant)

VENI IMMANUEL was originally music for a Requiem Mass in a fifteenth-century French Franciscan Processional. Thomas Helmore (b. Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, 1811; d. Westminster, London, England, 1890) adapted this chant tune and published it in Part II of his The Hymnal Noted (1854). A g…

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