Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship ‎#1

1. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

1. O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
Who mourns in lowly exile here,
Until the Son of God appear.

Refrain:
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee,
O Israel.

2. O come, Desire of Nations, bind
All peoples in one heart and mind;
Bid envy, strife, and quarrels cease;
Fill the whole world with heaven’s peace. [Refrain]

3. O come, thou Dayspring, come and cheer
Our spirits by thine advent here;
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
And death’s dark shadows put to flight. [Refrain]

4. O come, thou Key of David, come,
And open wide our heavenly home;
Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to misery. [Refrain]

5. O come, thou Root of Jesse, free
Thine own from Satan’s tyrany;
From depths of hell thy people save,
And give them vic’try o’er the grave. [Refrain]

6. O come, O come, thou Lord of Might,
Who to thy tribes on Sinai’s height
In ancient times didst give the law
In cloud, and majesty, and awe. [Refrain]

7. O come, thou Wisdom from on High,
And order all things far and nigh;
To us the path of knowledge show,
And cause us in her ways to go. [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: O come, O come, Emmanuel
• Title: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
• Translator: John Mason Neale
• Translator: Henry Sloane Coffin
• Alterer: Henry W. Baker
• Refrain First Line: Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to thee
• Meter: 8.8.8.8 with refrain
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2024
• Scripture:
  1 Timothy 2:5-6
  ;
  Isaiah 7:14
  ;
  Matthew 1:23
• Topic: Advent
• Notes: Great Antiphons, 8th cen.; sts. 1, 3–6 tr. from the Latin by Anglican minister J.M. Neale in Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences (1851), rev. by Henry Baker for Hymns Ancient & Modern (1861); sts. 2 & 7 tr. by Presbyterian pastor Henry Sloan Coffin for Hymns of the Kingdom of God (1916).

Tune Information

• Name: VENI EMMANUEL
• Meter: 8.8.8.8 with refrain
• Incipit: 13555 46543
• Key: e minor or modal
• Source: Hymns of the Kingdom of God, 1916
• Notes: Tune VENI EMMANUEL is from the chant “Bone Jesu dulcis cunctis” (“O good Jesus, altogether sweet”), late 15th cen., arr. as in <cite>Hymns of the Kingdom of God</cite> (1916). Text and tune were paired by Thomas Helmore in <cite>The Hymnal Noted,</cite> Part II (1856).