The Paris Psalter: Psalm 71
Syle dom þinne,
drihten, kyninge;
suna cynincges syle,
þæt he soð healde.
Dem þu þin folc
deore mid soðe,
heald þine þearfan
holde mid dome.
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Onfon beorgas eac
beorhtre sibbe
on þinum folce
fægere blisse
and geswyru eac
soþum dædum.
On his soðfæstnesse
swylce demeð
on folce
fyrhte þearfan,
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swylce he þearfena bearn
þriste hæleð.
He þa hermcweðend
hyneð and bygeð,
se mid sunnan wunað
swylce mid monan,
þurh ealra worulda woruld
wunað him ece.
He þonne astigeð,
swa se stranga ren
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fealleð on flys her,
and swa fæger dropa
þe on þas eorðan
upon dreopað.
On his agenum dagum
ypped weorðeþ
syb soðfæstnes
swiðe genihtsum,
oþþæt byð ahafen
hluttor mona.
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He þonne wealdeð
wera cneorissum
be sæ tweonum,
sidum ricum,
and fram streamracum
styreð him eallum
oþ þysse eorðan
utgemæru.
Hine[?]
Sigelwearas
seceað ealle
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and his feondas
foldan liccigeað.
Cumað of Tharsis
tires eadige
and of ealandum
utan kynincgas;
þa him eardgyfu
æðele bringað
of Arabia,
eac of Saba;
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ealle him leoda
lacum cwemað.
Hine weorðiað
worulde kyningas
þa on eorðwege
ealle syndan;
ealle þeoda hine
weorðiað georne.
Forþon he alyseð
lungre þearfan,
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þæt him se welega ne mæg
wiht onsittan,
and þæne wædlan,
þe on worulde næfð
ahwær elles
ænigne fultum.
He helpeð þearfan,
swylce eac wædlan,
and he þearfigendra
sawla gehæleð.
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He of mansceatte
and of mane eac
sniome hiora sawle
softe
alysde[?]
;
ys his nama for him
neode gebyrhted.
He lyfað leodum,
him byð lungre seald;
of Arabia gold
eorlas lædað;
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hine weorþiað
wera cneoressa
and hine ealne dæg
eac bletsiað.
þonne æðele getrym
eorðan weardað,
bið se beorht ahafen
ofer beorgas
up[?]
;
ofer Libanum
licgeað his yþa,
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and on burgum beoþ
blostmum fægere
swa on eorðan heg
ute on lande.
þonne byð his nama
ofer
eall[?]
niða bearn
and to widan feore
weorðeð gebletsod;
ær sunnan his nama
soðfæst standeð,
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byð his setl ær
swylce þonne mona.
And him byð eorþan cynn
eall gebletsad;
ealle hine þeoda
þriste heriað.
Wese Israhela
ece drihten
and hiora sylfra god
symble gebletsad,
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se þe wundor mycel
wyrceð ana;
si his mihta nama
mode gebletsad
on ecnesse
awa to worlde.
And þeos eorðe si
eall gefylled,
þurh his wuldres miht.
Wese swa, wese swa!