O Root of Jesse, standard raised for all people—kings will stand dumb in your presence, the Gentiles will pay you homage: come! Deliver us! No longer delay!
O Adonai, ruler of the house of Israel, who appeared to Moses in the burning bush, and gave him the law on Sinai, come! Stretch forth your arm to redeem us!
O Wisdom, uttered by the mouth of the Most High, reaching from one end of earth to the other with great power, yet ordering all things with gentleness, come! Teach us the way of prudence!
O Virgin of virgins, how shall this be? For neither before you was any like you, nor shall there be after. Daughters of Jerusalem, why do you marvel at me? The thing which you behold is a divine mystery.
O Key of David, scepter of the house of Israel, what you open, none can shut, and what you shut, none can open: Come! Bring the prisoner out of his dungeon where he sits in darkness and the shadow of death!
O Root of Jesse, standard raised for all people—kings will stand dumb in your presence, the Gentiles will pay you homage: come! Deliver us! No longer delay!
O Adonai, ruler of the house of Israel, who appeared to Moses in the burning bush, and gave him the law on Sinai, come! Stretch forth your arm to redeem us!
O Wisdom, uttered by the mouth of the Most High, reaching from one end of earth to the other with great power, yet ordering all things with gentleness, come! Teach us the way of prudence!
Mary, although the ancients did not give you a salutation of a great “O”, we do today, as over the days, the years, the centuries you have held us all in your tender care.
