The Paris Psalter: Psalm 54
Gehyr min gebed,
halig drihten,
ne forseoh æfre
sariges bene;
beheald me holdlice
and gehyr me eac.
Grimme ic eom begangen;
forðon ic gnornige
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and me forhtige
feondes stefne
and fyrenfulra
fæcne niðas.
Forðam me on sah
unrihtes feala;
wurdon me þa on yrre
yfele and hefige.
Ys me on hreðre heah
heorte gedrefed
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and me fealleð on
fyrhtu deaðes.
Egsa me and fyrhtu
ealne forcwomon,
and me beþeahton
þeostru niðgrim.
Ic þa on mode cwæð,
hwa me sealde
to fleogenne
fiðeru swa culfran,
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and ic þonne ricene
reste syððan.
Efne ic feor gewite,
fleame dæle,
and on westene
wunode lange,
bide þæs beornes
þe me
bete[?]
eft
modes[?]
mindom
and mægenes hreoh.
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Hat nu todælan,
drihten usser,
heora geðeode
geond þas woruld wide;
forðon ic þær on unriht
oft locade,
and wiðercwyda
wearn gehyrde;
drugon þæt on burgum
dæges and nihtes.
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þunie[?]
him gewinnes wearn
ofer wealles hrof
and heom on midle wese
man and inwit
and unsoðfæstnys
ealle wealde.
Næfre on his weorþige
wea aspringe,
mearce
mansceat[?]
,
man inwides;
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forþon gif me min feond
fæcne wyrgeð,
ic þæt abere
bliðe mode.
þeah þe þa ealle
ðe me a feodon,
wordum wyrigen
and wearn sprecan,
ic me wið heora hete
hyde sneome.
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þu eart se man
þe me wære
on anmede,
and æghwæs cuð
latteow lustum;
and wyt gelome eac
æton swetne mete
samed ætgædere,
and on godes huse
gangan swylce
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mid geþeahtunge
þine and mine.
Hi ofer cume
unþinged deað,
astigon heo on helle
heonan lifigende.
Forðam on heora gasthusum
is gramlic inwit,
and on hiora midle
man inwitstæf.
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Ic soðlice
to sylfum drihtne
cleopode on corðre,
and me cuðlice
gehyrde
hælend drihten.
Ic on æfenne,
eac on mergenne
and on midne dæg,
mægene sæcge
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and bodie,
þæt þu bliðe me
mine stefne
stiðe gehyre.
A[?]
ðu symle
sawle mine
lustum alyse,
laðum wiðferige,
forðon me manige ymb
mægene syrewað.
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þæt gehyreð god
and hi gehyneð eac,
þe ær worulde wæs
and nu wunað ece.
Nis him onwendednes
on woruldlife,
ne him godes fyrhtu
georne ondrædað.
Heo besmitað
swylce his sylfes
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þa gewitnesse,
þær hi woh fremedon;
forðon hi synt on yrre
ut adælde,
ne hi sylfe wel
geseon æfre,
forðon hit wæs his heortan
gehygde neah.
Hi word hira
wel gesmyredon
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ele anlicast;
eft gewurdon
on gescotfeohta
scearpe garas.
Sete on drihten
þin soð gehygd;
he þe butan fracoðum
fedeð syððan.
Ne syleð he soðfæstum
syððan to feore
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þæt him yþende mod
innan hreðre;
ðu arlease
ealle gelædest
on soðe forwyrd
seaðes deopes.
Se[?]
blodhreowa[?]
wer
bealuinwites
fæcne gefylled
ne[?]
fæger lif
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on middum feore
gemeteð ahwær;
ic me on minne drihten
deorne getreowige.