The Paris Psalter: Psalm 79

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

þu þe Israela         æðelum cynne
reccest and rædest,         ðu nu recene beheald,
þu ðe Ioseph swa sceap         gramum wiðlæddest.
ðu ðe sylfa nu         sittest ofer cherubin,

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æteow fore Effraim         eac Mannasse
and Beniamin,         nu we biddað þe.
Awece þine mihte         and mid wuldre cum,
and us hale do         her on eorðan.
Gehweorf us, mægena god,         and us mildne æteow

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þinne andwlitan;         ealle we beoð hale.
Eala ðu, mægena god,         mære drihten,
hu lange yrsast þu         on þines esnes gebed?
Tyhst us and fedest         teara hlafe,
and us drincan gifest         deorcum tearum

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manna gehwylcum         on gemet rihtes.
þu us asettest         on sarcwide
urum neahmannum;         nu we cunnion,
hu us mid fraceðum         fynd bysmriað.
Gehweorf us, mægena god,         and us mildne æteow

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þinne andwlitan;         ealle we beoð hale.
þu of ægyptum         ut alæddest
wræstne wingeard,         wurpe þeode
and þone ylcan ðær         eft asettest.
þu him weg beforan         worhtest rihtne,

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and his wyrtruman         wræstne settest,
þanon eorðe wearð         eall gefylled.
His se brada scua         beorgas þeahte,
and his tanas astigun         godes cedderbeam.
Ealle þa telgan         ðe him of hlidað,

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þu æt sæstreamas         sealte gebræddest,
and hi to flodas         forð aweaxað.
Forhwan þu towurpe         weallfæsten his?
Wealdeð his winbyrig         eall þæt on wege færð.
Hine utan of wuda         eoferas wrotað,

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and wilde deor         westað and frettað.
Gehweorf nu, mægena god,         milde and spedig
þine ansyne         ufan of heofenum;
gewite and beseoh         wingeard þisne,
þæt he mid rihte         ræde gange,

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þæne ðin seo swiðre         sette æt frymðe,
and ofer mannes sunu,         þe þu his mihte ær
under ðe getrymedest,         tires wealdend.
Fyr onbærneð,         folm þurhdelfeð;
fram ansyne         egsan ðines

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ealle þa on ealdre         yfele forweorðað.
Si þin seo swiðre hand         ofer soðne wer
and ofer mannes sunu;         þu his mihta ðe
geagnadest,         ealle getrymedest,
weoruda drihten;         ne gewitað we fram ðe.

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Ac þu us wel cwica,         wealdend mihtig;
we naman þinne         neode cigeað.
Gehweorf us, mægena