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Psalm 148
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Heriað ge on heofenum hælend drihten,heriað hlude on heanessum.
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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.
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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 wærunwræclice geworht wætera ðryþe,
and gesceapene wærun, þa he sylfa het.
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Þa he on ecnesse eall staðeladeand on worulda woruld wolde healdan;
he sette bebod, syþþan heo þæt heoldon.
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Herigen dracan swylce drihten of eorðan,and ealle neowelnessa herian naman drihtnes.
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Fyr, forst, hægel and gefeallen snaw,is and yste, ealra gastas
þe his word willað wyrcean georne,
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Muntas and geswyru, micle beamas,þa þe mæst and wæstm mannum bringað,
and on eallum cedrum ciið alæded,
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Deor and neat, do þæt sniome;nifle nædran cynn be naman ealle,
and fugla cynn fiðerum gescyrped,
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Eorðcyningas eac ealle swylceþe folcum her fore wisien
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and ealle þe þas eorþan ahwær demeð.
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Beon ge, hægestealdas and glade fæmnan,ealde and geonge ealle ætsamne;
herian naman drihtnes mid neodlofe.
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Forþon his anes nama ofer ealle isahafen healice hæleða ealra;
is upp ahafen his andetness
heah ofer myclum heofone and eorðan.
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He horn hefeð holdes folces,he lofe leohteð leofe þa halgan;
wese awa frið on Israhela
fælum folce, and hi forð heonan
on his neaweste neode wunian.
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