Advent
O Come O Come Emmanuel
- Words:
- various, combined by unknown author approx 12th Century, Translated by John Mason Neale, 1851.
- Music:
- 'Veni Emmanuel' 15th Century French processional.
- Setting:
- "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.
- Metre:
- 8 8 8 8 8 8
- 1O come, O come, Emmanuel,And ransom captive Israel,That mourns in lonely exile hereUntil the Son of God appear.Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuelshall come to thee, O Israel.
- 2O 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.Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuelshall come to thee, O Israel.
- 3O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, freeThine own from Satan's tyranny;From depths of hell Thy people save,And give them vict'ry ov'r the grave.Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuelshall come to thee, O Israel.
- 4O come, Thou Dayspring, come and cheerOur spirits by Thine advent here;Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,And death's dark shadows put to flight.Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuelshall come to thee, O Israel.
- 5O 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.Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuelshall come to thee, O Israel.
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In the hymnals
- Written in 1851, the words are in 570 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Veni Emmanuel, is in 374 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.