The Paris Psalter: Psalm 128

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Oft me fuhtan to         fynd on geoguðe,
cweðan Israhelas nu         eac þæt sylfe;
oft me fuhtan to         fynd on geoguþe,
ne mihton hi awiht æt me         æfre gewyrcean.

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Ofer minum bæce         bitere ongunnon
þa firenfullan         facen timbrian,
and heora unriht         eft gelengdon.
Drihten is soðfæst,         and gedeð sniome,
þæt he firenfullra         fæcne geðancas

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wis toweorpeð;         weorðað gescende
and hiora scamiað         swiþust ealles,
þa to Sione hete         swiðost hæfdon.
Wesen hi hige         her gelicast
þam þe on huses þæce         heah aweaxeð,

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þæt bið forwisnad         wraðe sona,
ær hit afohten         foldan losige.
Of þam he ne gefylleð         folme æfre,
þeah þe he hit mawe         micle elne;
ne mid his sceafe ne mæg         sceat afyllan,

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þeah þe he samnige         swiðe georne.
And þæt ne cweðan,         þa his cwide weoldan
on ofergeate         æghwær hæbben:
"Us gebletsige         bealde drihten
and ofer eow wese         eac his bletsung;

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we eow neodlice         on naman drihtnes
swylce bletsiað         bliðe mode."