The Paris Psalter: Psalm 134

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Heriað naman drihtenes,         neode swylce
herigen hine his scealcas         swiðe ealle.
Ge þe on godes huse         gleawe standað
and on cafertunum         Cristes huses

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þæs godan godes         gearwe syndan,
Lofiað ge drihten,         forþon he lungre is
fæstræd and fremsum         fira æghwam;
weorðiað his naman,         forþon he wyrðe is.
Forðon him godne geceas         Iacob drihten

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and on agene æht         Israeles cynn.
Ic þæt gearwe ongeat,         þæt is god and mycel
drihten ure;         forþon him dom standeð
ofer ealle godu         eorðbuendra.
Ealle þa þe wolde,         worhte drihten

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on heofonrice         and her on eorðan,
on sidum sæ         swylce on eallum,
þær he dyrne wat         deorce grundas.
And he fram þysse eorðan         ende lædeð
wolcen wræclicu,         wind and liget,

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and þa to regne         recene wyrceð,
þe forð lædeð         fægere windas
of his goldhordum         godra manegum;
se ægipta sloh         æðele frumbearn
æghwylc ealra         oð þa nytenu.

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He sigetacen         sende manegum
forebeacn fæle         folce ægipta,
and þa Pharaones         folce gecyðde
and his scealcum         samed ætgædere.
Se sloh þeode folc         þearle manige,

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and eac acwealde         cyningas strange.
Wæs Seon efne         sum þara kynincga,
and Og kyning,         se þe æror wæs
on Basane         breme and mære.
Sealde heora eardland         eall Israhelum

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and heora yrfe         eac his folce.
Ys þin nama, drihten,         nemned ece,
and þin gemynd,         mihtig drihten,
on ealra worulda woruld         wynnum standeð.
Forþon his folc demeð         fægere drihten,

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and he bið on his esnum         agenum frefriend.
Beoð deofolgyld         dysigra þeoda
gold and seolfur,         þe her geotað menn,
and mid heora folmum         fægere wyrceað.
þa muð habbað,         and ne meldiað wiht,

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fægere eagan,         ne magon feor geseon.
Earan habbað,         ne hi awiht magon
holdes gehyran,         þeah ðe him hleoðrige,
and nose habbað,         nawiht gestincað.
Handa hi habbað,         ne hi hwæðere magon

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gegrapian         godes awiht;
habbað fet swylce,         ne magon feala gangan.
Ne hi on hracan awiht         hlude ne cleopiað,
ne him gast warað         gomum on muðe.
Synt anlice þæm         þe hi ær worhtan,

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and ealle þa ðe on hi         æfre getreowað.
Hus Israela         holdne drihten
bletsien bealde,         biddan swylce
þæt Aarones hus         ecne drihten
bliðe bletsien;         beornas ealle,

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þa on lifes hus         leof eardiað,
bletsien drihten         bliðe mode.
þa þe him ondræden         drihtnes egsan,
bletsien drihten         beornas ealle;
se drihten is         deore gebletsad

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of Sion sniome,         þe soðfæst ær
on Hierusalem         god eardode.
Ic andette         ecum drihtne,
forðon he god is,         and ic ful gearwe wat,
þæt he to worulde byð         wis and mildheort.