The Paris Psalter: Psalm 137

Sacred Texts Legends and Sagas WordGumbo: Old English Dictionaries [External Site] Index Previous Next The Paris Psalter: Psalm 137 Verse Indeterminate Saxon - Ic þe andette, ecne drihten, on minre gehygde heortan ealre; forðon þu ealle mine word earum gehyrdest, þa ic mid muðe and mid mode cweðe, - 5 - and on þinra engla ealra gesihðe ic þe singe swiðe geneahhige. Eac ic þin tempel tidum weorðige, þæt halige hus, holde mode, and þær þinne naman on neod secge. - 10 - Ofer þine þa miclan mildheortnesse and soðfæstnesse samed ætgædere, þu þinne þone halgan naman neode gedydest, ofer us ealle æghwær micelne. Swa hwylce daga ic þe deorne cige, - 15 - gehyr me hwætlice, and me hraðe gedo micle mine sawle on þines mægenes sped. Ealle þe andettan eorðan kyningas, forðon þe hi gehyrdon hlude reorde þines muðes þa mæran word; - 20 - þa on sangum singan drihtne. Forþon þin wuldur is wide geond eorðan micel and mære, ofer middaneard eart þu healice ahafen, drihten; þu eadmodra ealra locast - 25 - on heofonhame her on eorðan. þeah þe ic on midle manes gange, þær me costunga cnysdan geneahhe, a þu me weredest wraþum feondum þe me woldan yrre on acyðan; - 30 - þu me geræhtest recene mid handa and me þin swyðre sneome hælde. Drihten for me dome gylde, is his mildheortnes mycel on worulde; ne forseoh æfre, þæt þu sylfa ær - 35 - mid þinum handum her geworhtest.