O Come, O Come Emanuel: Christ as the Lord

If you haven't read the first post in this series, please do; it'll help you make sense of the rest.

 

For those of you who don't know, an antiphon is a response by the choir or the congregation to a Psalm or another passage of Scripture read or sung during a liturgy. The antiphon is often a Gregorian chant.

 

O Antiphon for December 19

Latin:

O Adonai, et Dux domus Israel,

qui Moysi in igne flammae rubi apparuisti,

et ei in Sina legem dedisti:

veni ad redimendum nos in brachio extento. 

English:

O Adonai, and leader of the House of Israel,

who appeared to Moses in the fire of the burning bush

and gave him the law on Sinai:

Come and redeem us with an outstretched arm. 

O Come, O Come Emanuel

Latin:

Veni, veni, Adonai,

qui populo in Sinai

legem dedisti vertice

in maiestate gloriae.

Gaude! Gaude! Emmanuel,

nascetur pro te Israel!

 

English:

O come, o come, Thou Lord of might,

who to thy tribes on Sinai's height

in ancient times did give the law,

in cloud, and majesty, and awe.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emanuel

shall come to thee, O Israel.

 
Scripture references: Isaiah 11:4-5; 33:22