The Paris Psalter: Psalm 128

Sacred Texts Legends and Sagas WordGumbo: Old English Dictionaries [External Site] Index Previous Next The Paris Psalter: Psalm 128 Verse Indeterminate Saxon - Oft me fuhtan to fynd on geoguðe, cweðan Israhelas nu eac þæt sylfe; oft me fuhtan to fynd on geoguþe, ne mihton hi awiht æt me æfre gewyrcean. - 5 - Ofer minum bæce bitere ongunnon þa firenfullan facen timbrian, and heora unriht eft gelengdon. Drihten is soðfæst, and gedeð sniome, þæt he firenfullra fæcne geðancas - 10 - wis toweorpeð; weorðað gescende and hiora scamiað swiþust ealles, þa to Sione hete swiðost hæfdon. Wesen hi hige her gelicast þam þe on huses þæce heah aweaxeð, - 15 - þæt bið forwisnad wraðe sona, ær hit afohten foldan losige. Of þam he ne gefylleð folme æfre, þeah þe he hit mawe micle elne; ne mid his sceafe ne mæg sceat afyllan, - 20 - þeah þe he samnige swiðe georne. And þæt ne cweðan, þa his cwide weoldan on ofergeate æghwær hæbben: "Us gebletsige bealde drihten and ofer eow wese eac his bletsung; - 25 - we eow neodlice on naman drihtnes swylce bletsiað bliðe mode."