The Paris Psalter: Psalm 129

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Ic of grundum to þe         geomur cleopode;
drihten, drihten,         do þu nu ða,
þæt þu mines gebedes         bene gehyre.
Wesan þine earan         eac gehyrende

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and beheldende         mid hige swylce
on eall gebedd         esnes þines.
Gif þu ure unriht wilt         eall behealdan,
drihten, drihten,         hwa gedeð æfre,
þæt he þæt geefne         eall mid rihte?

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Ys seo mildheortnes mid þe,         mihta wealdend,
and ic for ðinre æ,         ece drihten,
þas oþer eall         eaðe aræfnige.
Hwæt, þæt sawl min         symble aræfnede,
þæt ic on þinum wordum         me wel getreowde;

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forðon min sawl on þe         symble getreoweð.
Fram þære mæran         mergentide
oðþæt æfen cume         ylda bearnum,
Israhelas on drihten         a getreowen.
Forðon is mildheortnesse         miht on drihtne

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and he alyseð         lustum ealle,
þa ðe hiht on hine         habbað fæste.
He Israhelas         ealle alyseð
of unrihte         æghwær symble.