The Paris Psalter: Psalm 142

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Drihten, min gebed         deore gehyre,
and mid earum onfoh         ungemetum georne
mine halsunge;         heald me syððan
on þinre soðfæstnesse         and me on soðe gehyr.

5

Ne ga þu mid þinum esne         in to dome,
forþon on þinre gesihðe ne bið         soðfæst ænig
þe on ðisse foldan         feorhlif bereð.
Forþon mine sawle         swiðe feondas
ealle ehtan         ungemete strange,

10

habbað me gehnæged         heanne to eorðan
and min lif swylce         gelytlad is.
Hi me on digle         deorce stowe
settan sarlice         samed anlice,
swa þu worulddeade         wrige mid foldan;

15

is me ænge gast         innan hreðres,
and me is heorte on         hearde gedrefed.
þonne ic on mode         gemyndgade,
hu me ærran dagas         oft alumpan,
metegade on mode         ealle þine mæran weorc

20

and ymbe þine handgeweorc         hogode georne.
þonne ic mine handa to þe         holde þenede
and mine sawle         sette mid mode,
swa eorðan bið         ansyn wæteres;
gehyr me hrædlice,         hæl me syþþan.

25

Nu me deope is,         drihten leofa,
min sylfes gast         swær geworden,
ne awend fram me,         wuldres ealdur,
þine ansyne;         wese ic earmum gelic
þe on sweartne grund         syþþan astigað.

30

Gedo þæt ic gehyre         holde on morgene
þine mildheortnesse,         mihtig drihten,
forþon ic hycge to ðe,         helpe gelyfe.
Do me wegas wise,         þæt ic wite gearwe
on hwylcne ic gange         gleawe mode;

35

nu ic to drihtnes         dome wille
mine sawle         settan geornast.
Afyrr me, frea drihten,         feondum minum;
nu ic helpe to þe         holde gelyfe;
lær me, hu ic þinne willan         wyrce and fremme,

40

forþon þu min god eart,         þu me god dydest.
Me þin se goda gast         gleawe lædde,
þæt ic on rihtne weg         reðne ferde;
for naman þines         neodweorðunge,
drihten usser,         do me halne,

45

þæt ic on ðinum rihte         rædfæst lifige.
And þu of costunge         clæne alæddest
sawle mine,         þær heo syððan forð
on þinre mildheortnesse         mote wunian;
and þu mine feondas         fæcne todrife,

50

and eac forleose         laðra gehwylcne
þe mine sawle         synne ætfæsten,
forþon ic þin esne eom         agen symble.