Rorate coeli

Send the Just One like a dew, you heavens, and let the clouds rain Him down. Be not angry, Lord, remember no longer our iniquity:

Behold, your holy city has been abandoned: Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem made desolate: your holy and glorious dwelling, where our fathers praised You.

Send the Just One like a dew, you heavens, and let the clouds rain Him down.

We have sinned, we have become unclean, we have all fallen like leaves and our iniquities have carried us away like the wind: You have hidden your face from us and You have let us suffer in the hand of our iniquity.

Send the Just One like a dew, you heavens, and let the clouds rain Him down.

See, Lord, the affliction of your people, and send He whom You are going to send: the Lamb, the Ruler of the earth, from the rock of the desert to the mountain of the daughter of Sion that He might take up the yoke of our captivity.

Send the Just One like a dew, you heavens, and let the clouds rain Him down.

Be consoled, be consoled, my people, quickly will come your salvation: why are you consumed by grief, so that your sorrow transforms you? I will save you, do not be afraid, for I am the Lord your God, your holy redeemer of Israel.

Send the Just One like a dew, you heavens, and let the clouds rain Him down.