O Radix

The Great antiphon sung on 19 December by the Dominican student brothers in Oxford.

III – December 19

O RADIX Iesse, qui stas in signum populorum,
super quem continebunt reges os suum, quem gentes deprecabuntur:
veni ad liberandum nos, iam noli tardare.

O Root of Jesse, who stand as a sign for the peoples (Isaiah 11:10),
the kings of the earth are silent before you (Isaiah 52:15) and the
nations invoke you:
come to free us, do not delay (Habakkuk 2:3).