The Paris Psalter: Psalm 147

 

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.