A Nocturnal Scene with the Nativity and the Annunciation to the Shepherds Beyond, Bartolomé Estebán Murillo
Rorate Cæli is a beautiful Advent Hymn. The text is a rendition of verses from the Book of Isaiah. It is a hymn of repentance and sorrow, a reverent and humble supplication to the mercy of God.
Ecce dominus veniet et omnes sancti ejus cum eo
et erit in die illa lux magna alleluia.
Behold, the Lord comes and all his saints with him
and on that day there will be great light, alleluia.
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Latin lyrics
Rorate caeli desuper,
Et nubes pluant justum.
1. Ne irascaris Domine,
Ne ultra memineris iniquitatis:
Ecce civitas Sancti facta est deserta:
Sion deserta facta est:
Jerusalem desolata est:
Domus sanctificationis tuae
Et gloriae tuae,
Ubi laudaverunt te patres nostri.
Rorate.
2. Peccavimus, et facti sumus
Tamquam immundus nos,
Et cecidimus quasi folium universi:
Et iniquitates nostrae
Quasi ventus abstulerunt nos:
Abscondisti faciem tuam a nobis,
Et allisisti nos
In manu iniquitatis nostrae.
Rorate.
3. Vide Domine afflictionem populi tui,
Et mitte quem missurus es:
Emitte Agnum dominatorem terrae,
De Petra deserti
Ad montem filiae Sion:
Ut auferat ipse
Jugum captivitatis nostrae.
Rorate.
4. Consolamini, consolamini, popule meus:
Cito veniet salus tua:
Quare maerore consumeris,
Quia innovavit te dolor?
Salvabo te, noli timere,
Ego enim sum Dominus Deus tuus,
Sanctus Israel, Redemptor tuus.
Rorate.
English lyrics
Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above
And let the clouds rain the Just One.
1. Do not be angry, O Lord,
Nor remember iniquity forever:
Behold the Holy City is made a desert,
Zion has been made a desert,
Jerusalem is desolate:
The house of thy holiness and thy glory,
Where our fathers praised thee.
Refrain
2. We have sinned, and we are made
Like unto our uncleanness,
And we have all fallen like a leaf:
And our iniquities
Have carried us away like the wind.
Thou hast hidden thy face from us
And thou hast crushed us
In the hand of our iniquity.
Refrain
3. See, O Lord, the suffering of thy people,
And send the One who was to be sent:
Send forth the Lamb, the ruler of the earth,
From the Rock of the desert
To the mountain of the daughter of Zion
That the same One may carry away
The yoke of our captivity.
Refrain
4. Be comforted, be comforted, my people:
Thy salvation will come quickly:
Why art thou consumed with grief,
Why is sorrow renewed in thee?
I will save thee, be not afraid,
For I am the Lord thy God,
The Holy One of Israel, thy Redeemer.
Refrain