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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 95
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Singað nu drihtne sangas neowe;
singe þeos eorðe eall eceum drihtne.
Singað nu drihtne, and his soðne naman
bealde bletsiað; beornas sæcgeað
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fram dæge to dæge drihtnes hælu.
Secgeað his wuldor geond sigeþeode,
and on eallum folcum his fægere wundor.
He is se mycla god; forþon hine mæn sculon
elne herian; he is egeslic god
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ofer ealle godu eorðbuendra.
Syndon ealle hæþenu godu hildedeoful;
heofonas þænne worhte halig drihten.
Ys on þinre gesihðe soð andetnes,
fæger halignes fæste gebletsad
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and weorðlic wlite wuldres þines.
Bringað nu drihtne bu ætsomne
wlite and are, wuldor ðridde,
and þæt of hiora eðele don ealle þeode,
þæt hi naman drihtenes neode herigean.
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Genimað eow arlice lac and in gangað
on his wictunas; weorðiað drihten
on his þære halgan healle geneahhige.
For his ansyne sceal eorðe beofian;
secgað nu on cynnum and on cneorissum,
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þæt from treowe becwom tirfæst rice
drihten ure; dome he syþþan
eorðan ymbhwyrft ealle gesette.
He ferhtlic riht folcum demeð
and on his yrre ealle þeode.
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Heofenas blissiað, hrusan swylce
gefeoð fæstlice, and floda þrym;
sealte sæstreamas sælðe habbað.
Habbað feldas eac fægere blisse
and ealle þa þe on him eard weardiað;
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wærun wudubearuwas on wyndagum
for andwlitan ecean drihtnes,
forþon he cwom on cyneðrymme,
þæt he þas eorðan ealle demde.
þonne he ymbhwyrft eorðan folca
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soðe and rihte syþþan demeð.