O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
VENI EMMANUELLM with refrain
Words: Latin antiphons, 12th centuryTranslated by John Mason Neale, 1851Music: VENI EMMANUEL, 15th-century French processional
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Words
O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, Thou Wisdom from on high,
Who orderest all things mightily;
To us the path of knowledge show,
And teach us in her ways to go.
O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free
Thine own from Satan's tyranny;
From depths of hell Thy people save,
And give them vict'ry ov'r the grave.
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.
O come, Thou Key of David, come,
And open wide our heav'nly home;
Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to misery.
Scripture
The Bible passages this hymn draws on, in the King James Version.
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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