The Paris Psalter: Psalm 101
ðu min gebed,
mære[?]
drihten,
gehyr, heofenes weard,
and gehlyde min
to ðe becume,
þeoda reccend.
Na þu andwlitan
æfre þinne
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awend fram me,
wuldres ealdor;
gif ic geswenced sy,
þu swæs to me
þin eare onhyld
and me ofestlice
gehyr, heofenes weard,
helpys benan.
Forðon dagas mine
gedroren syndan
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smece gelice,
and forspyrcende synd
mine mearhcofan,
þæs þe me þinceð,
swylce hi on cocerpannan
cocas gehyrstan.
Ic eom hege gelic,
þam þe hraðe weornað,
ðonne hit byð amawyn
mannes folmum;
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is min heorte eac
hearde geswenced,
forðon ic ær forgeat,
þæt ic etan sceolde
minne swetne hlaf;
forðon me is swære stefn
hefig gnorniende
heortan getenge,
ætfeolen eac min ban
flæsce[?]
minum.
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Ic geworden eom
pellicane gelic,
se on westene wunað;
wat ic eac swiðe geare,
þæt ic genemned eam
nihthrefne gelic,
þe on scræfe eardað,
and ic spearuwan swa some
gelice gewearð,
anlicum fugele.
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Hwæt, me ealne dæg
edwitspræce[?]
on
mine feondas
fæste brohtan,
and ða me heredan;
hi me hraþe æfter
full swyþe eft
swerigean ongunnon.
Forðon ic anlic ætt
æscean hlafe,
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and ic minne drinc
mengde wið tearum,
For andwlitan
yrres þines;
feor þu me ahofe
and gehnæctest eft.
Dagas mine gedruran
swa se deorca scua,
and ic hege gelic,
swa hit hraðe weornað.
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þu on ecnysse wunast
awa, drihten;
wunað þin gemynd,
þenden woruld standeð.
Aris nu, mihtig god,
miltsa Sione;
nu is hire helpe
heahsæl cumen.
Forþon þæs þancunga
þine[?]
scealcas
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ambyhtmæcgas
ealle hæfdan,
forðon þe þu stiðlice
stanum and eorðan
eallum ætgædere
ær miltsadest.
Forþon neodlice
on naman ðinum
ealle eorðbuend
egsan habbað,
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and þin wuldor ongitað
wise[?]
cyningas[?]
.
Eft timbrade
ece drihten
and gesette Sion
þurh his sylfes miht,
ðær wæs gesyne
his seo soðe sped.
Oft he þearfendra bene
ðance gehyrde,
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and he ne forhogode
heora hold gebed.
ða wislice
awriten standað
and on cneoressum
cyðed syndan,
þæt he folc gesceop;
fægere drihten
herað holdlice
hrore geþance.
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Forðon he fæstlice
forð locade
of his þam hean
halgan setle;
drihten geseah of heofenum
her on eorðan.
He þa gehyrde
heahgnornunge
þæra ðe
gebundene[?]
bitere wæron,
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and ða bealdlice
bearn alysde
þara ðe ofslegene
sliþe wæran.
þonne byð on Sione sægd
soð nama drihtnes,
and his lof swylce,
leoda bearnum,
on Hierusalem
gleawast and mærust.
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Cumað folc syððan
feorran togædere
and ricu eac,
þæt hraðe drihtne
ful holdlice
hyran syþþan.
He him andwyrdeð
eallum sona
on wege worulde,
þær
his[?]
gewis mægen
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fæste
standeð[?]
:
"Ic þe feawe dagas
minra mættra
mode secge,
þæt þu me meaht on midle
minra dagena
sona gecigean,
gif þu sylfa wylt."
Earon þines anes gear
awa to feore.
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æt fruman þu,
drihten, geworhtest
eorþan frætwe
and upheofen;
þæt is heahgeweorc
handa þinra.
Sweotule þa forweorðað
and ðu sylf wunast;
eall forwisnað
wædum anlice,
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and ðu hi onwendest,
swa man wrigels deð,
and hi beoð to worulde
wended syþþan.
þu þonne byst se ilca,
se þu ær wære;
ne beoð winter þin
wiht ðe sæmran.
Bearn þinra scealca
her bu namon,
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and þær eardedan
ealle þrage,
and heora sylfra cynn
syððan to feore
on worulda woruld
well gerehtest.