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.