The Paris Psalter: Psalm 147

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Herige Hierusalem         georne drihten,
here þu, Sion, swylce         þinne soðne god.
Forþon he getrymede         wið teonhete,
þæt þu þine doru mihtest         bedon fæste,

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and gebletsade         bearna æghwylc
þe on innan þe         ahwær wæren.
He þine gemæru         gemiclade,
þu on utlandum         ahtest sibbe,
and þe gesadade         mid þy selestan

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hwætecynnes         holde lynde.
He his spræce hider         spowendlice
on þas eorðan         ærest sendeð,
and his word yrneð         wundrum sniome.
He snaw sendeð         samed anlice

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swa þu wulle flys         wolcnum bringe,
and þone toweorpeð         wide swa æscean.
He his cristallum         cynnum sendeð
swylc swa hlafgebrece         of heofonwolcnum;
for andwlitan celes         þær ænig ne mæg

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him standan         stiðe mode.
He his word sendeð         þuruh windes gast;
blaweð beorhtlice,         burnan floweð
and to wætere         weorðeð sniome.
He his word eac         ær mid wisdome

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godum Iacobe         geara foresægde,
and Israhele         eac his domas.
Ne dyde he ahwær swa         eldran cynne,
þæt he him his domas         digle gecydde.