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O come, O come, O Lord of might Who to your tribes on Sinai's height, In ancient times didst give the law In cloud and majesty and awe Latin 13th century translated by John M Neale (1818-1866) The original Latin of this is: O Adonai, et Dux domus Israel, qui Moysi in igne flammae rubi apparuisti, et ei in Sina legem dedisti: veni ad redimendum nos in brachio extento. Which Maggi Dawn translated as: O Adonai and Ruler of the House of Israel, who appeared to Moses in the fire of the burning bush and on Mount Sinai gave him your law. Come, and with outstretched arm redeem us Maggi keeps the word Adonai in her translation of this verse of the old Advent hymn... The title which we are told was ascribed to God, and used in place of his sacred name of YHWH when the Jewish rabbis were reading from scripture, for fear that they would take God's actual name in vain, leading to the later mix up of the consonants from YHWH and the vowels from Adon...