The 'O' Antiphons - O Radix Jesse

(The "O" Antiphons, so called because each one addresses the God who comes in Christ with a different biblical title, beginning with the invocation "O," are prayed in the 7 days leading up to Christmas.)

O Radix Jesse (Root of Jesse)

O Root of Jesse, upon whom
The Spirit comes to rest;
Whose boughs through all the world shall bloom
To bless and to be blest:

True Vine, in whom we must abide
To bring forth plenteous fruit;
Whose branches when by tempests tried,
Are firm in you, their Root.

You are a shadow from the heat
That burns the thirsty ground:
A hiding-place when tempests beat
Upon the plain around.

O Root of Jesse, day by day
To you our prayers we send:
Come now, and through the world, we pray,
Your healing leaves extend.