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My Soul In Stillness Waits, a song for Advent.
For you, O Lord, my soul in stillness waits, truly my hope is in you.

Voice, guitar and videography: Richard Schletty, https://schlettysound.com
Text: Psalm 95 and "O" Antiphons; Marty Haugen, b.1950 
Tune: Marty Haugen, b.1950
© 1982, GIA Publications, Inc.

From Universalis.com:

The O Antiphons

The liturgy marks these numbered days – from 17 December onwards – in a special way. At Vespers, the antiphons for the Magnificat each day form a kind of countdown to Christmas. They are called “The O Antiphons” because each of them starts with the word “O”.

We Christians can easily forget that the Coming of the Lord is an Old Testament thing. The people who were looking forward to it at the time were Old Testament people in an Old Testament culture, and they looked forward to it in an Old Testament way. And so the O Antiphons look forward to the event with Old Testament language and symbols. He is the Wisdom of the Most High (O Sapientia); he is Adonai, the leader of Israel (O Adonái); the stock of Jesse (O radix Iesse); the key of David and sceptre of Israel (O clavis David); the Rising Sun of eternal light; the King of all peoples; and on the 23rd, the final evening of Advent, he is Emmanuel, God-with-Us. (If you think that the hymn O come, O come, Emmanuel is inspired by these antiphons, you are right.)

These antiphons are so important, and such a good basis for reflection and understanding, that everyone ought to be reading them. So apart from being in their proper place at Vespers each day, each of the O Antiphons has its own article in the About Today page, both in the apps and on the website.