The Paris Psalter: Psalm 61

 

Ic mine sawle      symble wylle

 

full gleawlice      gode underþeodan;

 

æt him is hælu min      her eall gelancg.

 

Hwæt, he is god min      and gearu hælend;

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is he fultum min,      ic ne forhtige wiht.

 

ðonne ge mid mane      men ongunnon,

 

ealle ge ða to deadan      dædun sona,

 

swa ge awurpon      wah of stofne.

 

Swa ge mine are      ealle þohton

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wraðe toweorpan,      wide urnon

 

þurstige muðe;      þæne bletsadan

 

and ðone wyrgedan      wraðe mid heortan.

 

Hwæðere ic me soðe      sawle mine

 

to gode hæfde      georne geðeoded;

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he minre geðylde      þingum wealdeð.

 

Hwæt, he is god min      and gleaw hælend[?]

 

and fultum is;      ne mæg ic hine ahwær befleon.

 

On gode standeð      min gearu hælu[?]

 

and wuldor min      and wyn mycel;

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me is halig hyht      on hine swylce.

 

Hycge him halig folc      hælu to drihtne;

 

doð eowre heortan hige      hale and clæne,

 

forðon eow god standeð      georne on fultum.

 

Hwæðere ge, manna bearn,      manes unlyt

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wyrceað on wægum      and woh doð,

 

and eow beswicað      sylfe oftast,

 

þær ge idel gylp      on þam ilcan[?] fremmað.

 

Nellað ge gewenan      welan unrihte

 

oþþe to reaflace      ræda þencean.

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þeah þe eow wealan to      wearnum[?] flowen,

 

nyllan ge eow on heortan þa      hige staðelian;

 

æne ic god spræcan      gearuwe gehyrde

 

and þæt treowe ongeat      tidum gemeldad.

 

Miht is drihtnes      ofer middangeard

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and him þæs to worlde      wuldor stande

 

and mildheortness,      þæt he manna gehwam

 

æfter his agenum      earnungum[?] demeð,

 

efne swa he wyrceð      on worldlife.