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.