[Rank]
Feria V infra Hebdomadam II Adventus;;Feria major;;2

[Rule]
Oratio Dominica

[Lectio1]
Lesson from the book of Isaias
!Isa 19:1-2
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold the Lord will ascend upon a swift cloud, and will enter into Egypt, and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst thereof.
2 And I will set the Egyptians to fight against the Egyptians: and they shall fight brother against brother, and friend against friend, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

[Responsory1]
@Tempora/Adv2-0:Responsory1

[Lectio2]
!Isa 19:3-6
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall be broken in the bowels thereof, and I will cast down their counsel: and they shall consult their idols, and their diviners, and their wizards, and soothsayers.
4 And I will deliver Egypt into the hand of cruel masters, and a strong king shall rule over them, saith the Lord the God of hosts.
5 And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the river shall be wasted and dry.
6 And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the banks shall be diminished, and be dried up. The reed and the bulrush shall wither away.

[Responsory2]
@Tempora/Adv2-0:Responsory2

[Lectio3]
!Isa 19:11-13
11 The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise counsellors of Pharao have given foolish counsel: how will you say to Pharao: I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
12 Where are now thy wise men? let them tell thee, and shew what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Tanis are become fools, the princes of Memphis are gone astray, they have deceived Egypt, the stay of the people thereof.

[Responsory3]
@Tempora/Adv2-0:Responsory3

[Ant 2]
O Lord, Thou art He That should come, * for Whom we look, that Thou shouldest save thy people.

[Ant 3]
He it is * Who, coming after me, is preferred before me, Whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
