The Paris Psalter: Psalm 124

Sacred Texts Legends and Sagas WordGumbo: Old English Dictionaries [External Site] Index Previous Next The Paris Psalter: Psalm 124 Verse Indeterminate Saxon - þa þe on drihten heora dædum getreowað, hi beoð on Sionbeorge swyþe gelice; ne mæg hine on ealdre ænig onhreran þe eardfæst byð on Hierusalem. - 5 - Hi synd mundbeorgas micle ymbutan; haldeð heora ymbhwyrft ece drihten of ðisson nu awa to worulde. Næfre forlæteð lifes drihten firenfulra tan furðor gangan, - 10 - þonne he soðfæstra settan wylle. Ne he soðfæste swylce læteð, þæt hi to unrihte ahwær willen handum ræcean, ac he him hraþe gyldeð; do þu, drihten, wel þam þe gedefe her - 15 - hiora heortan riht healdað mid gode. þa ðe gearwe beoð to gramum bendum, eft hi gelædeð ece drihten mid þæm þe unriht æghwær wyrceað; sibb si Israhelum symble ofer ealle.