O Antiphon (December 19)—O Radix Jesse

O Root of Jesse,
that stands for an ensign of the people,
before whom the kings keep silence and unto whom the Gentiles shall make supplication:

Come,

to deliver us, and tarry not. Amen.

O Radix Jesse,
qui stas in signum populorum, super quem continebunt reges os suum, quem gentes deprecabuntur;

veni

ad liberandum nos, iam noli tardere.