The Paris Psalter: Psalm 141

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Min stefn to þe         styrmeð, drihten,
and ic mid strangere         stefne swylce
eam biddende         bealde drihten.
Ic mine bene         bealde swylce

5

on his gesihðe         symble ageote,
and mine earfeþu         ealle full georne
fore him sylfum         sæcge geneahhe,
Gif mine grame þenceað         gast teorian,
and þu mine stige         strange ongeate.

10

On þyssum grenan wege,         þe ic gange on,
me oferhydige         æghwær setton
gearwe grine;         geara ic sceawade,
geseah on þa swyðran,         ne me sylfne þær
ænig mid gode         ongitan wolde.

15

ða me eac frecne fram         fleam gedydan,
næs þa þe mine sawle         secean wolde,
þa ic to þe, drihten,         digle cleopode
and sona cwæð:         "þu eart min se soða hiht;
eart þu on lifigendra         lande swylce

20

se gedefa dæl,         drihten, æghwær."
Beheald mine sawle,         hæleþa wealdend,
forþon ic geeadmeded eom         ungemete swiðe.
Alys me fram laþum;         hi me lungre synt
ealle ofer me         ungemete strange.

25

Alæd me of carcernes         cluse swylce
mine sawle,         þæt ic syþþan forð
þinne naman mote         neode sæcgean.
Min soðfæste         snotere bidað,
oþþæt þu me edlean         eft forgylde.