The Paris Psalter: Psalm 102

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Bletsa, mine sawle,         bliðe drihten,
and eall min inneran         his þæne ecean naman.
Bletsige, mine sawle,         bealde dryhten,
ne wylt þu ofergeottul         æfre weorðan

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ealra goda,         þe he þe ær dyde.
He þinum mandædum         miltsade eallum
and þine adle         ealle gehælde.
He alysde þin lif         leof of forwyrde,
fylde þinne willan         fægere mid gode.

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He þe gesigefæste         soðre miltse
and ðe mildheorte         mode getrymede;
eart þu edneowe         earne gelicast
on geogoðe nu         gleawe geworden.
Hafast þu milde mod,         mihta strange,

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drihten, domas         eallum þe deope her
and ful treaflice         teonan þolian.
He his wegas dyde         wise and cuðe
Moyse þam mæran         on mænige tid,
swylce his willan eac         werum Israhela.

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Mildheort þu eart and mihtig,         mode geþyldig,
ece drihten,         swa þu a wære;
is þin milde mod         mannum cyðed.
Nelle þu oð ende         yrre habban,
ne on ecnesse         ðe awa belgan.

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Na þu be gewyrhtum,         wealdend, urum
wommum wyrhtum         woldest us don,
ne æfter urum unryhte         ahwær gyldan.
Forðon þu æfter heahweorce         heofenes þines
mildheortnysse,         mihtig drihten,

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lustum cyðdest,         þam þe lufedan þe.
Swa þas foldan         fæðme bewindeð
þes eastrodor         and æfter west,
he betweonan þam         teonan and unriht
us fram afyrde         æghwær symble.

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Swa fæder ðenceð         fægere his bearnum
milde weorðan,         swa us mihtig god,
þam þe hine lufiað,         liðe weorðeð,
forðan he ealle can         ure þearfe.
Gemune, mihtig god,         þæt we synt moldan and dust;

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beoð mannes dagas         mawenum hege
æghwær anlice,         eorðan blostman,
swa his lifdagas         læne syndan.
þonne he gast ofgifeð,         syþþan hine gærsbedd sceal
wunian widefyrh,         ne him man syððan wat

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ahwær elles         ænige stowe.
þin mildheortnes,         mihtig drihten,
þurh ealra worulda woruld         wislic standeð,
deorust and gedefust         ofer ealle þa þe ondrædað him.
Swa his soðfæstnyss         swylce standeð

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ofer þara bearna bearn         þe his bebodu healdað,
and þæs gemynde         mycle habbað,
þæt heo his wisfæst word         wynnum efnan.
On heofenhame         halig drihten
his heahsetl         hror timbrade,

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þanon he eorðricum         eallum wealdeð.
Ealle his englas         ecne drihten
bletsian bealde,         heora bliðne frean,
mægyn and mihta,         þa his mære word
habbað and healdað         and hyge fremmað.

60

Bletsian drihten         eall his bearna mægen
and his ðegna ðreat,         þe þæt þence nu,
þæt hi his willan         wyrcean georne.
Eall his agen geweorc         ecne drihten
on his agenum stede         eac bletsige,

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þær him his egsa,         anweald, standeð;
bletsige min sawl         bliðe drihten.