Psalmorum 148
1 Alleluja. Laudate Dominum de cælis; laudate eum in excelsis.
Alleluya. Ye of heuenes, herie the Lord; herie ye hym in hiye thingis.
2 Laudate eum, omnes angeli ejus; laudate eum, omnes virtutes ejus.
Alle hise aungels, herie ye hym; alle hise vertues, herye ye hym.
3 Laudate eum, sol et luna; laudate eum, omnes stellæ et lumen.
Sunne and moone, herie ye hym; alle sterris and liyt, herie ye hym.
4 Laudate eum, cæli cælorum; et aquæ omnes quæ super cælos sunt,
Heuenes of heuenes, herie ye hym; and the watris that ben aboue heuenes,
5 laudent nomen Domini. Quia ipse dixit, et facta sunt; ipse mandavit, et creata sunt.
herie ye the name of the Lord.
6 Statuit ea in æternum, et in sæculum sæculi; præceptum posuit, et non præteribit.
For he seide, and thingis weren maad; he comaundide, and thingis weren maad of nouyt. He ordeynede tho thingis in to the world, and in to the world of world; he settide a comaundement, and it schal not passe.
7 Laudate Dominum de terra, dracones et omnes abyssi;
Ye of erthe, herie ye the Lord; dragouns, and alle depthis of watris.
8 ignis, grando, nix, glacies, spiritus procellarum, quæ faciunt verbum ejus;
Fier, hail, snow, iys, spiritis of tempestis; that don his word.
9 montes, et omnes colles; ligna fructifera, et omnes cedri;
Mounteyns, and alle litle hillis; trees berynge fruyt, and alle cedris.
10 bestiæ, et universa pecora; serpentes, et volucres pennatæ;
Wielde beestis, and alle tame beestis; serpentis, and fetherid briddis.
11 reges terræ et omnes populi; principes et omnes judices terræ;
The kingis of erthe, and alle puplis; the princis, and alle iugis of erthe.
12 juvenes et virgines; senes cum junioribus, laudent nomen Domini:
Yonge men, and virgyns, elde men with yongere, herie ye the name of the Lord;
13 quia exaltatum est nomen ejus solius.
for the name of hym aloone is enhaunsid.
14 Confessio ejus super cælum et terram; et exaltavit cornu populi sui. Hymnus omnibus sanctis ejus; filiis Israël, populo appropinquanti sibi. Alleluja.
His knouleching be on heuene and erthe; and he hath enhaunsid the horn of his puple. An ympne be to alle hise seyntis; to the children of Israel, to a puple neiyynge to hym.
