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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 149
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Singað samheorte sangas drihtne
and him neowne sang nu ða singað;
wese his herenes on haligra
clænre cyricean cyðed geneahhe.
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Israhelas on hine eac blissien,
and Sione bearn symble hihtan
swiðust ealra.
Herigen his naman neode on ðreatum,
on timpano tidum heriað
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and on psalterio singað georne.
Forðon on his folce is fægere drihtne
wel licendlic, and he wynlice
þam manþwærum syleð mære hælu.
þonne on wuldre gefeoð wel þa halgan,
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beoð on heora husum bliðe gedreme.
Him on gomum bið godes oft gemynd;
heo þæs wislice wynnum brucað,
and sweord habbaþ swylce on folmum.
Mid þy hi wrecan þenceað wraðum cynnum
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and ðrea þearle þeodum eawan.
And hio bindan balde þenceað
cyningas on campum, and cuðlice
heora æðelingas don on isene bendas,
þæt hio dom on him deopne gecyðan
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and þæt mid wuldre awriten stande:
þis is haligra wuldor her on eorðan.