The Paris Psalter: Psalm 127

 

Eadige syndon[?] ealle      þe him ecne god

 

drihten ondrædað,      and his gedefne weg

 

on hyra lifes tid      lustum gangað.

 

þonne þu þines gewinnes      wæstme byrgest,

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etest oretes,      and þu eadig leofast,

 

and þe wel weorðeð      on wynburgum.

 

Beoð þines wifes      welan gelice,

 

swa on wingearde      weaxen berigean,

 

and on þines huses      hwommum genihtsum.

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Synd þine bearn swylce      samed anlicast,

 

swa elebeamas      æþele weaxen,

 

ymb þinne beod utan      blæda standen.

 

Efne swa bið gebletsad      beorna æghwylc

 

mann on moldan      þe him metodes ege

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on his dædum      drihten forhtað.

 

þe[?] of Sionbeorge      swylce drihten

 

bealde bletsige,      and þu bruce eac

 

on Hierusalem      goda gehwylces

 

ealle lange dagas      lifes þines.

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And þu þinra bearna      bearn sceawige,

 

geseo samed gangan      sibb ofer Israhel.