Psalm 148 – Praise Ye the LORD From the Heavens
Sun, stars, sea creatures, mountains, and kings alike are summoned to praise the LORD.
Psalm 148 summons the whole created order to praise the LORD, from angels and stars in the heavens to dragons and deeps on earth, continuing from Psalms 147.
The `title of the hundrid and eiyte and fourtithe salm. Alleluya. Ye of heuenes, herie the Lord; herie ye hym in hiye thingis.
Alle hise aungels, herie ye hym; alle hise vertues, herye ye hym.
Sunne and moone, herie ye hym; alle sterris and liyt, herie ye hym.
Heuenes of heuenes, herie ye hym; and the watris that ben aboue heuenes,
herie ye the name of the Lord.
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.
Ye of erthe, herie ye the Lord; dragouns, and alle depthis of watris.
Fier, hail, snow, iys, spiritis of tempestis; that don his word.
Mounteyns, and alle litle hillis; trees berynge fruyt, and alle cedris.
Wielde beestis, and alle tame beestis; serpentis, and fetherid briddis.
The kingis of erthe, and alle puplis; the princis, and alle iugis of erthe.
Yonge men, and virgyns, elde men with yongere, herie ye the name of the Lord;
for the name of hym aloone is enhaunsid.
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.