The Paris Psalter: Psalm 127

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Eadige syndon ealle         þe him ecne god
drihten ondrædað,         and his gedefne weg
on hyra lifes tid         lustum gangað.
þonne þu þines gewinnes         wæstme byrgest,

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etest oretes,         and þu eadig leofast,
and þe wel weorðeð         on wynburgum.
Beoð þines wifes         welan gelice,
swa on wingearde         weaxen berigean,
and on þines huses         hwommum genihtsum.

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Synd þine bearn swylce         samed anlicast,
swa elebeamas         æþele weaxen,
ymb þinne beod utan         blæda standen.
Efne swa bið gebletsad         beorna æghwylc
mann on moldan         þe him metodes ege

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on his dædum         drihten forhtað.
þe of Sionbeorge         swylce drihten
bealde bletsige,         and þu bruce eac
on Hierusalem         goda gehwylces
ealle lange dagas         lifes þines.

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And þu þinra bearna         bearn sceawige,
geseo samed gangan         sibb ofer Israhel.