RORATE CÆLI HYMN
Adapted from the Rorate Caeli Introit, c.15th cent.?
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 1. NE irascáris Dómine, ne ultra memíneris iniquitátis:

ecce cívitas Sancti facta est desérta:

Síon desérta fácta est: Jerúsalem desoláta est:

domus sanctificatiónis túae et glóriae túae,

ubi laudavérunt te pátres nóstri. 

           +   Rorate.

 1. Do not be angry, O Lord, at our iniquities.

Behold the city of your Holy Ones is deserted:

Sion is deserted, Jerusalem now is desolate:

The house of your blessing and your glory,

where our fathers praised you.  (Is 64:9-11)

           +   Rorate.

 2. Peccávimus, et fácti súmus tamquam immúndus nos,

et cecídimus quasi folium univérsi:

et iniquitátes nóstrae quasi véntus abstulérunt nos:

abscondísti fáciem túam a nóbis,

et allisísti nos in mánu iniquitátis nostrae.

            +   Rorate.

 2. We have sinned and become like some loathsome thing,

 And we fall like all the leaves,

 And our iniquities blow us about as the wind:

 You have hidden your face from us,

And struck us with the hand of our iniquity. (Is 64:6-7)

           +   Rorate.

 3· Víde Dómine afflictiónem pópuli túi,

et mítte quem missurus es :

emítte Agnum dominatórem térrae,

de Pétra desérti ad montem fíliae Sion:

ut áuferat ipse jugum captivitatis nostrae.                   

           +   Rorate.

 3. See, O Lord, the affliction of your people,

And send The One whom You will send,

 send forth the Lamb, ruler of the earth

From the rock in the desert to the mount of your daughter Sion,  (Is 61:1)

So that he will remove the yoke of our captivity.(cf Is 10:27; cf Is 14:25)

           +   Rorate.

 4· Consolamini, consolamini, popule méus:

cito véniet sálus túa:

quare maeróre consúmeris, quia innovávit te dolor?

Salvábo te, nóli timére, égo enim sum Dominus Déus tuus,

Sanctus Israel, Redémptor tuus.

 

           +   Rorate.

 4. Be  consoled, be consoled, my people:  (Is. 40:1)

I will send your salvation quickly. (cf Is. 62:11)

Why are you consumed with grief, why renew your pain?

I will save you, do not be afraid, for I am the Lord your God,

The Holy One of Israel and your Redeemer
   (cf Is. 41:14)

           +   Rorate.

 

 

 
 

 FROM THE PROPHET ISAIAH

[44] 24 THUS says the LORD, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who made all things, who stretched out the heavens alone, who spread out the earth […] who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built, and I will raise up their ruins’;  27 who says to the deep, ‘Be dry, I will dry up your rivers’;  28 who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and he shall fulfil all my purpose’; saying of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be built,’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation shall be laid.’”

[45] THUS says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and ungird the loins of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:  2 “I will go before you and level the mountains […] I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I gird you, though you do not know me,  6 that all may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.  7 I form light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe, I am the LORD, who do all these things.”

8 “SHOWER , O heavens, from above, and let the skies rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation may sprout forth, and let it cause righteousness to spring up also; I the LORD have created it.”

 

 

 

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