The Paris Psalter: Psalm 136

Sacred Texts Legends and Sagas WordGumbo: Old English Dictionaries [External Site] Index Previous Next The Paris Psalter: Psalm 136 Verse Indeterminate Saxon - Ofer Babilone bradum streame, þær we sittað and sare wepað, þonne we Sion gemunan swiðe georne. On salig we sarige swiðe gelome - 5 - ure organan up ahengan. Forþon us þær frunon fæcnum wordum, woh meldedan, ða us on weg læddan: "Singað us ymnum ealdra sanga þe ge on Sione sungan geneahhige." - 10 - Hu magon we singan sangas drihtne on þære foldan þe us fremde is? Gif ic þin, Hierusalem, forgyten hæbbe, forgyte min seo swyðre symble æt þearfe; ætfeole min tunge fæste gomum, - 15 - gif ic ofergittol þin æfre weorðe, Gif ic ne forsette þe symble æt frymðe; ac ic on Hierusalem georne blissie. Gemune þu, drihten, manigra bearna, þe on Edom synt eal lifigende, - 20 - þonne þu Hierusalem gegodie; þa nu oft cweðað: "Wutun hi idle gedon, oðþæt hi heora eard geceosan." Hwæt, þu eart Babilone bitere ætfæsted ænge and yfele, hire earm dohter; - 25 - eadig byð hwæðere se þe eft gyldeð þa þu him on ealdre ær forgeafe and us eallum eac gesealdest. Eadig byð se þe nimeð and eac seteð his agen bearn on þone æþelan stan.