The Paris Psalter: Psalm 112

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Herigean nu cnihtas         hælynd drihten,
and naman dryhtnes         neode herigan.
Wese nama dryhtnes         neode gebletsad
of ðyssan forð         awa to worulde.
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Fram upgange         æryst sunnan
oðþæt heo wende         on westrodur
ge sculon dryhtnes naman         dædum herigean.
He is ofer ealle         ingeþeode
se heahsta         hæleða cynnes,
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is ofer heofenas eac         ahafen his wuldur.
Hwylc ys anlic         urum dryhtne,
þam halgan gode,         þe on heofonrice
eadig eardað,         ofer ealle gesyhð,
þa eadmedu         æghwær begangæð
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on eorðwege,         up on heofenum?
He of eorðan mæg         þone unagan
weccan to willan,         and of woruftorde
þone þearfendan         þriste areccan,
And hine on ealdordom         upp asettan
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his folces fruman         on fæger lif.
Se þe eard seteð         unwæstmbærre
on modor hus         manigra bearna;
hio ofer hire suna         symblað and blissað.