The Paris Psalter: Psalm 61

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Ic mine sawle         symble wylle
full gleawlice         gode underþeodan;
æt him is hælu min         her eall gelancg.
Hwæt, he is god min         and gearu hælend;

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is he fultum min,         ic ne forhtige wiht.
ðonne ge mid mane         men ongunnon,
ealle ge ða to deadan         dædun sona,
swa ge awurpon         wah of stofne.
Swa ge mine are         ealle þohton

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wraðe toweorpan,         wide urnon
þurstige muðe;         þæne bletsadan
and ðone wyrgedan         wraðe mid heortan.
Hwæðere ic me soðe         sawle mine
to gode hæfde         georne geðeoded;

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he minre geðylde         þingum wealdeð.
Hwæt, he is god min         and gleaw hælend
and fultum is;         ne mæg ic hine ahwær befleon.
On gode standeð         min gearu hælu
and wuldor min         and wyn mycel;

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me is halig hyht         on hine swylce.
Hycge him halig folc         hælu to drihtne;
doð eowre heortan hige         hale and clæne,
forðon eow god standeð         georne on fultum.
Hwæðere ge, manna bearn,         manes unlyt

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wyrceað on wægum         and woh doð,
and eow beswicað         sylfe oftast,
þær ge idel gylp         on þam ilcan fremmað.
Nellað ge gewenan         welan unrihte
oþþe to reaflace         ræda þencean.

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þeah þe eow wealan to         wearnum flowen,
nyllan ge eow on heortan þa         hige staðelian;
æne ic god spræcan         gearuwe gehyrde
and þæt treowe ongeat         tidum gemeldad.
Miht is drihtnes         ofer middangeard

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and him þæs to worlde         wuldor stande
and mildheortness,         þæt he manna gehwam
æfter his agenum         earnungum demeð,
efne swa he wyrceð         on worldlife.