The Paris Psalter: Psalm 131

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Gemune þu, drihten,         mærne Dauid
and ealle his mannþwærnesse         micle and goode.
Swa ic æt frymðe geswor         ferhðe wið drihten
and gehat gehet,         he geheold teala

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wið Iacobes         god þone mæran.
þeah þe ic on mines huses         hyld gegange
oþþe selegesceot         þænne swæs wese
oððe on min restbedd         ricene gestige,
Gif ic minum eagum         unne slæpes,

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oþþe minum breawum         beode hnappunga,
oþþe ic on þunwange         þriste gereste,
Oþþæt ic gemete         mære stowe
drihtne gecorene,         dyre selegesceot
Iacobes gode         georne gecweme.

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Efne we þas eall         on Eufraten
sæcgean gehyrdon,         syððan gemitton
forwel manegu         on wudufeldum.
We on his selegesceot         swylce gangað,
and þære stowe         stede ariað

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þær his fotas ær         fæste gestodan.
Aris on þinre reste         recene, drihten;
þu earce eart         eallhaligra.
Synd þine sacerdas         on soðfæstnesse
gode gegierede,         and gleawe nu

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þine þa halgan         her blissiað.
For þinum agenum         esne swylce,
deorum Dauide,         þu ne do æfre,
þæt þu andwlitan         ut oncyrre
þines þæs halgan         her on eorðan.

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þæs deopne að         drihten aswor
and þone mid soðe         swylce getrymede,
þæt he hine for hole         ær ne aswore,
gehet Dauide,         swa he him dyde syþþan,
þæt he weorðlicne         wæstm gesette

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þe of his innaðe         agenum cwome,
ofer þin heahsetl;         gif nu healdað well
þines sylfes bearn         soðe treowa
and þa gewitnesse,         þe ic hig wel lære,
þonne hiora suna         swylce motan

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a þysse worulde         wynnum brucan
and on þinum setle         sittan geneahhe.
Forðon him Sione geceas         sylfa drihten,
and him to earde geceas         ærest æt frymðe.
þis is min rest,         þe ic recene nu

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on worulda woruld         wunian þence,
þær ic eard nime,         forðon ic hi ær geceas.
His wuduan ic         wordum bletsige
and gesegnade,         sylle geneahhe
heora hungrium         hlaf to fylle.

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Ec his sacerdas         swylce mid hælu
georne gegyrwe,         and gode eac
his þa halgan her         habbað blisse.
þær ic Dauides horn         deorne bringe,
forð gelæde,         fægre gearuwe

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byrnende blacern,         bere for minum
criste gecorenum,         þe ic hine cuðne wat.
Ic his feondas eac         facne gegyrwe
mid scame swiðust;         ofer hine scir cymeð
minra segnunga         soðfæst blostma.