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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 53
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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On þinum þam haligan naman, gedo me halne, god;
alys me fram laðum þurh þin leofe mægen.
God, min gebed gearuwe gehyre,
and earum onfoh min agen word.
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Forþam me fremde oft facne gestodon,
sohtan mine sawle swiðe strange,
and na heom god setton gleawne on gesyhðe.
Efne me þonne god gleawe fultumeð,
is andfengea ece drihten
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sawle minre; he me swican ne wile.
Afyr me fæcne yfel feonda minra,
and hi soðfæst toweorp syððan wide.
Ic ðe lustum lace cweme,
and naman þinne niode swylce
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geara andette, forðon ic hine goodne wat.
Forþon þu me alysdest, lifes ealdor,
of earfoðum eallum symble,
ealle mine fynd eagum ofersawe.