The Paris Psalter: Psalm 82

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Hwylc is þe gelic,         ece drihten?
Ne swiga ðu,         ne þe sylfne bewere.
Forþon þine feond         fæcne forwurdan,
þa ðe fæste ær         feodan, drihten,

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and heora heafod wið þe         hofan swiðe.
Hi on ðinum folce him         facengeswipere
syredan and feredan,         and to swice hogedon,
and ehtunga         ealle hæfdon,
hu hi þine halgan         her yfeladan.

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Cwædan cuðlice:         "Wutun cuman ealle
and hi towyrpan         geond werþeoda,
þæt ne sy gemyndig         manna ænig,
hu Israhela naman         ænig nemne."
Forþon hi an geþeaht         ealle ymbsætan,

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and gewitnesse wið þe         wise gesettan.
Selegesceotu synd         onsægd in Idumea
and Ismæhelita,         eac synt Moabes,
Ammon and Ammalech,         Agareni,
swylce Gebal         and grame manige

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fremde þeoda mid eardiendum         folce on Tyrum.
Cwom samod mid ðam         swylce Assur;
ealle on wegum         æghwær syndon
on leodstefnum         Loðes bearnum.
Do him nu swa ðu dydest         dagum Madiane

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and Sisare,         swylce Iabin;
ealle þa namon         ændor wylle
and Cisone         clæne hlimme;
wurdan þa earme         eorþan to meohxe.
Sete heora ealdormenn         swa ðu Oreb dydest,

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Zeb and Zebee         and Salmanaa,
and heora ealdrum         eallum swylce;
ealle þa on an         ær gecwædon,
þæt hi halignesse godes         her gesettan.
Sete hi nu, min god,         samod anlice

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swa se wægnes hweol         oþþe windes healm,
and swa færincga         fyr wudu byrneð,
oððe swa lig freteð         lungre morhæð,
Swa þu hi on yrre         ehtest and drefest,
þæt hi on hrernesse         hraþe forweorðað.

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Gedo þæt hiora ansyn         awa sceamige,
þonne hi naman þinne         neode seceað.
Ealle beoð georette,         eac gescende,
and on weoruldlife         weorþað gedrefde,
þonne hi naman þinne         neode seceað.

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þu ana eart         ofer ealle heah
eorðbuende,         ece drihten.