The Paris Psalter: Psalm 90

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Me eardað æt         æþele fultum
þæs hehstan         heofonrices weard,
þe me æt wunað         awa to feore.
Ic to drihtne cwæð:         "þu me dyre eart

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fæle fultum;         hæbbe ic freond on him,
min se goda god,         and ic on ðe geare hycge."
Forðon he me alysde         of laðum grine,
huntum unholdum,         hearmum worde.
He me mid his gesculdrum         sceade beþeahte;

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forþon ic under fiðrum         fæle hihte.
Hwæt, me soðfæstnes min         scylde wið feondum,
ne ðu þe nihtegsan         nede ondrædest.
Ne forhtast þu ðe on dæge         flan on lyfte,
þæt þe þurhgangan         garas on ðeostrum,

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oððe on midne dæg         mære deoful.
Fealleð þe on þa wynstran         wergra þusend,
and eac geteledra         tyn þusendo
on þine þa swiðran,         and þe ne sceaðeð ænig.
Hwæðere þu ðæs eagan         eall sceawadest,

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gesege fyrenfulra         frecne wite.
þu me eart se hehsta hyht,         halig drihten;
þu me friðstol on ðe         fæstne settest.
Ne mæg þe ænig yfel         egle weorðan,
ne heard sweopu         huse þinum

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on neaweste         nahwær sceþþan.
Forþon he his englum bebead,         þæt hi mid earmum þe
on heora handum         heoldan georne,
þæt þu wilwega         wealdan mostest.
And þe on folmum         feredan swylce,

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þe læs þu fræcne on stan         fote spurne.
þu ofer aspide miht         eaðe gangan,
and bealde nu         basiliscan tredan,
and leon and dracan         liste gebygean.
Forðon he hyhte to me,         ic hine hraðe lyse,

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niode hine scylde,         nu he cuðe naman minne.
He cigde me,         and ic hine cuðlice
hold gehyrde,         and hine hraðe syþþan
of earfoþum         ut alysde.
Ic hine generige         and his naman swylce

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gewuldrige         geond ealle werðeoda,
and him lifdagas         lange sylle,
swylce him mine hælu         holde ætywe.