The Paris Psalter: Psalm 148

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Heriað ge on heofenum      hælend drihten,
heriað hlude      on heanessum.
Heriað hine ealle      engla ðreatas,
lofige hine swylce      eall his leodmægen.

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Herigen hine swylce      sunna and mona,
æghwylc steorra      and þæt æðele leoht.
Heofenas hine heofena      herian georne,
and þa wæter swylce      ðe ofer wolcnum synt
on heofenhame,      herigen drihten.

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Forðon he sylfa cwæð,      sona wærun
wræclice geworht      wætera ðryþe,
and gesceapene wærun,      þa he sylfa het.
þa he on ecnesse      eall staðelade
and on worulda woruld      wolde healdan;

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he sette bebod,      syþþan heo þæt heoldon.
Herigen dracan swylce      drihten of eorðan,
and ealle neowelnessa      herian naman drihtnes.
Fyr, forst, hægel      and gefeallen snaw,
is and yste,      ealra gastas

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þe his word willað      wyrcean georne,
Muntas and geswyru,      micle beamas,
þa þe mæst and wæstm      mannum bringað,
and on eallum cedrum      ciið alæded,
Deor and neat,      do þæt sniome;

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nifle nædran cynn      be naman ealle,
and fugla cynn      fiðerum gescyrped,
Eorðcyningas eac      ealle swylce
þe folcum her      fore wisien
and ealdormen      ahwær syndan,

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and ealle þe þas eorþan      ahwær demeð.
Beon ge, hægestealdas      and glade fæmnan,
ealde and geonge      ealle ætsamne;
herian naman drihtnes      mid neodlofe.
Forþon his anes nama      ofer ealle is

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ahafen healice      hæleða ealra;
is upp ahafen      his andetness
heah ofer myclum      heofone and eorðan.
He horn hefeð      holdes folces,
he lofe leohteð      leofe þa halgan;

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wese awa frið      on Israhela
fælum folce,      and hi forð heonan
on his neaweste      neode wunian.