Text: | O Come, O Come, Emmanuel |
Translator (Stanza 3): | Henry Sloane Coffin |
Translator (stanzas 1, 2): | John Mason Neale |
Tune: | VENI EMMANUEL |
Adapter: | Thomas Helmore |
1 O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.
[Refrain:]
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel!
2 O come, thou Day-spring, come and cheer
Our spirits by thine advent here;
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
And death's dark shadows put to flight. [Refrain]
3 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]
4 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]
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O come, O come, Emmanuel |
Title: | O Come, O Come, Emmanuel |
Translator (Stanza 3): | Henry Sloane Coffin (1916) |
Translator (stanzas 1, 2): | John Mason Neale (1851, 1854, alt.) |
Refrain First Line: | Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel |
Meter: | 8.8.8.8.8.8. |
Publication Date: | 1972 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Christian Year: Advent |
Source: | Psalteriolum Cantionum Catholicarum, 1710 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | VENI EMMANUEL |
Adapter: | Thomas Helmore (1854) |
Meter: | 8.8.8.8.8.8. |
Key: | e minor |
Source: | French Processional, 15th century |
Copyright: | Music from Hymnal for Colleges and Schools, edited by E. Harold Geer; used by permission of Yale University Press. |
Notes: | As in Hymnal for Colleges and Schools, 1956 |