The Paris Psalter: Psalm 137

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Ic þe andette,         ecne drihten,
on minre gehygde         heortan ealre;
forðon þu ealle mine word         earum gehyrdest,
þa ic mid muðe         and mid mode cweðe,

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and on þinra engla         ealra gesihðe
ic þe singe         swiðe geneahhige.
Eac ic þin tempel         tidum weorðige,
þæt halige hus,         holde mode,
and þær þinne naman         on neod secge.

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Ofer þine þa miclan         mildheortnesse
and soðfæstnesse         samed ætgædere,
þu þinne þone halgan naman         neode gedydest,
ofer us ealle         æghwær micelne.
Swa hwylce daga         ic þe deorne cige,

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gehyr me hwætlice,         and me hraðe gedo
micle mine sawle         on þines mægenes sped.
Ealle þe andettan         eorðan kyningas,
forðon þe hi gehyrdon         hlude reorde
þines muðes         þa mæran word;

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þa on sangum         singan drihtne.
Forþon þin wuldur is         wide geond eorðan
micel and mære,         ofer middaneard
eart þu healice         ahafen, drihten;
þu eadmodra         ealra locast

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on heofonhame         her on eorðan.
þeah þe ic on midle         manes gange,
þær me costunga         cnysdan geneahhe,
a þu me weredest         wraþum feondum
þe me woldan yrre         on acyðan;

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þu me geræhtest         recene mid handa
and me þin swyðre         sneome hælde.
Drihten for me         dome gylde,
is his mildheortnes         mycel on worulde;
ne forseoh æfre,         þæt þu sylfa ær

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mid þinum handum         her geworhtest.