The Paris Psalter: Psalm 81

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

God mihtig stod         godum on gemange,
and he hi on midle         mægene tosceadeð.
Hu lange deme ge         domas unrihte,
and ge onfoð ansyna         synnwyrcendra?

5

Demað steopcildum         domas soðe
and eadmedum         eac þæt sylfe,
wædlum and ðearfum         wel soðfæstum.
Ge of firenfulra         fæcnum handum
þearfan and wædlan         þriste alysað.

10

Ne ongeatan hi         ne geara wistan,
ac hi on ðystrum         þrage eodan;
ealle abeofedan         eorðan staþelas.
Ic ærest cwæð:         "Ge synd uppe godu,
ealle uphea,         and æðele bearn.

15

Ge þonne sweltað         samod mid mannum,
swa ealdormann         an gefealleð."
Aris drihten, nu!         Dem eorðware,
forþan þu eart erfeweard         ealra ðeoda.