The Paris Psalter: Psalm 145

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Herige min sawl         hælend drihten,
and ic on minum life         lustum drihten
herige haligne         and holdum gode
sealmas singe,         þenden ic sylf lifige.

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Nelle ge on ealdurmenn         ane getreowian,
ne on manna bearn;         nis þær mycel hælu.
Heora gast gangeð,         gearwe onwendeð
on þa eorðan         þe hi of comon;
of þam sylfan dæge         syðþan forweorðað

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ealle þa geþohtas         þe hi þohtan ær.
þonne bið eadig         þe him æror wæs
Iacobes god         geara fultumiend,
and ær his hiht on god         hæfde fæste,
Se þe heofon worhte,         hrusan swylce

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and sidne sæ         samed ætgædere,
and ealle þa þe him on         ahwær syndon.
He his soðfæst word         swylce gehealdeð,
and on worulde his         wise domas
deð gedefe         þe her deorce ær

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teonan manige         torne geþoledan;
syleð mete swylce         þe her murcne ær
hungur heaðugrimne         heardne geþoledan.
Wreceð to ræde         rice drihten
þara manna bearn         þe ær man gebræc,

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swylce þa gefetredan         fægre drihten
lungre alyseð         and him lif geofeð,
and blinde eac         bealde drihten
on heora eagum         eft onleohteð;
soðfæste drihten         swylce lufade.

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þa elðeodigan         ealle drihten
lustum healdeð,         and lif geofeð
weodewum wencelum;         he hiom wel onfehð,
fyrenfulra weg         frecne toweorpeð.
Rixað mid ræde         rice drihten

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on ecnesse         awa to feore,
and þin, Sione, god         symble to worulde.