O Clavis David

Christmas is closer and closer each day, and we continue pleading with the Lord to make haste. Lead us from our prison of sin and darkness and death!

It’s dark outside now as I’m posting this at scarcely six o’clock. The winter solstice, the longest night of the year, is nigh. This year, it’s even a more tangible symbol of the dark, as we in North America will also experience a total lunar eclipse this evening. Could the need for the light be made any more evident?

The darkness closes in like a prison; come, O Key of David, and set us free!

O Clavis David, et sceptrum domus Israël;
qui áperis, et nemo claudit;
claudis, et nemo áperit:
veni, et educ vinctum de domo cárceris,
sedéntem in ténebris, et umbra mortis.

Englished:

O Key of David and sceptre of the House of Israel;
you open and no one can shut;
you shut and no one can open:
Come and lead the prisoners from the prison house,
those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death.