Rorate Caeli, a Traditional Latin Gregorian Chant Hymn From the Advent Season

Rorate Caeli is a moving hymn from the Advent season. It feels like something right out of the Prophets. This version is sung by the monks of Santo Domingo de Silos.

Roráte caéli désuper, et núbes plúant jústum.
Ne irascáris Dómine, ne ultra memíneris iniquitátis: ecce cívitas Sáncti fácta est desérta: Síon desérta fácta est, Jerúsalem desoláta est:
dómus sanctificatiónis túæ et glóriæ túæ, ubi laudavérunt te pátres nóstri.

Roráte caéli désuper, et núbes plúant jústum.
Peccávimus, et fácti súmus tamquam immúndus nos,
et cecídimus quasi fólium univérsi:
et iniquitátes nóstræ quasi véntus abstulérunt nos: abscondísti faciem túam a nóbis, et allisísti nos in mánu iniquitátis nóstræ.

Roráte caéli désuper, et núbes plúant jústum.
Víde Dómine afflictiónem pópuli túi, et mítte quem missúrus es:
emítte Agnum dominatórem térræ, de Pétra desérti ad móntem fíliæ Síon:
ut áuferat ípse júgum captivitátis nóstræ.

Roráte caéli désuper, et núbes plúant jústum.
Consolámini, consolámini, pópule méus: cito véniet sálus túa:
quare mæróre consúmeris, quia innovávit te dólor?
Salvábo te, nóli timére, égo enim sum Dóminus Déus túus,
Sánctus Israël, Redémptor túus.
Roráte caéli désuper, et núbes plúant jústum.

Drop down, ye heavens, from above,
and let the skies pour down righteousness.
Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: thy holy city is a wilderness, Sion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation:
our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee.

Drop down, ye heavens, from above,
and let the skies pour down righteousness.
We have sinned, and are as an unclean thing,
and we all do fade as a leaf: and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away: thou hast hid thy face from us:
and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

Drop down, ye heavens, from above,
and let the skies pour down righteousness.
Behold, O Lord, the affliction of thy people, and send forth him whom thou wilt send; send forth the Lamb, the ruler of the earth,
from Petra of the desert to the mount of the daughter of Sion:
that he may take away the yoke of our captivity.

Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness.
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people; my salvation shall not tarry: why wilt thou waste away in sadness? why hath sorrow seized thee?
Fear not, for I will save thee:
For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Redeemer.
Drop down, ye heavens, from above,
and let the skies pour down righteousness.

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