The Paris Psalter: Psalm 115

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Ic þæt gelyfde,         forþon ic lyt sprece;
ic eom eadmede         ungemete swiðe.
Swylce ic sylfa cwæð,         þa me swa ðuhte
on modseofan         minum geþancum,

5

þæt wæron ealle menn         ungemete lease.
Hwæt mæg ic to gode         gyldan dryhtne
for eallum þam godum         þe he me ærur dyde?
Ic her hælu calic         hæbbe befangen,
and naman dryhtnes         neode cige.

10

Beorht ys and fæger         beacen dryhtne
on his gesyhðe         swylt haligra.
Eala, ic eom þin agen         esne, dryhten,
and þin swylce eom         scealc ombehte
and þinre þeowan sunu         on ðe acenned.

15

þu me tobræce         bendas grimme,
þæt ic þe laces lof         lustum secge.
Ic min gehat         halgum dryhtne
on his getynum         tidum gylde,
þe ymb dryhtnes hus         deore syndan,

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þær hit eagum folc         eall sceawiað,
and on Hierusalem         georne midre.