O Come, O Come Emanuel: Christ as King of the Nations

O Antiphon for December 23

Latin:

O Rex Gentium, et desideratus earum,

lapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unum:

veni, et salva hominem,

quem de limo formasti.

English:

O King of the nations, and their desire,

the cornerstone making both one:

Come and save the human race,

which you fashioned from clay. 

O Come, O Come Emanuel

Latin:

Veni, veni, Rex Gentium,

veni, Redemptor omnium,

ut salvas tuos famulos

peccati sibi conscios.

Gaude! Gaude! Emmanuel,

nascetur pro te Israel!

 

English:

O come, Desire of the nations, bind

in one the hearts of all mankind;

bid every strife and quarrel cease

and fill the world with heaven's peace.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emanuel

shall come to thee, O Israel.

Scripture references: Isaiah 2:4; 9:6