Advent Antiphon for December 19

See this post for the history of the Advent Antiphons. It’s swell.

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O Radix Jesse (O Root of Jesse)
O Root of Jesse, standing as a sign among the peoples; before you kings will shut their mouths,
to you the nations will make their prayer:
Come and deliver us, and delay no longer.

—cf. Isaiah 11.10, 45.14, 52.15; Romans 15.12