The Paris Psalter: Psalm 57

Sacred Texts Legends and Sagas WordGumbo: Old English Dictionaries [External Site] Index Previous Next The Paris Psalter: Psalm 57 Verse Indeterminate Saxon - Gif ge soð sprecan symble wyllen, demað manna bearn domum rihtum. Eft ge on heortan hogedon inwit, worhton wraðe; forþan ðæs wite eft - 5 - on eowre handa hefige geeode. Ge firenfulle fremde wurdon, syððan hi on worlde wæron acende and heo on life lygeword spæcon. Yrre heom becume anlic nædran, - 10 - ða aspide ylde nemnað; seo hi deafe deð, dytteð hyre earan, þæt heo nele gehyran heahgaldor sum þæt snotre men singað wið attrum. God heora toðas grame gescæneð, - 15 - þa hi on muðe mycle habbað; tolyseð leona mægen lungre drihten. Ac hi forweorðan wætere gelicost, þonne hit yrnende eorðe forswelgeð; swa his bogan bendeð, oðþæt bitere eft - 20 - adl on seteð, swa his geearnuncg byð. Swa weax melteð, gif hit byð wearmum neah fyre gefæstnad, swa heo feallað on þæt; hi sunnan ne geseoð syððan æfre. ærðon eowre treowu telgum blowe, - 25 - wæstmum weaxe, ær him wol becimeð, þæt heo beoð on yrre ealle forswelgene. Soðfæst blissað, þonne he sið ongan, hu þa arleasan ealle forweorðað, and his handa ðwehð on hæþenra - 30 - and þæra fyrenfulra fæcnum blode. And þonne man cweþeð on his modsefan: "þis is wæstm wises and goodes, þe his soðfæst weorc symble læste;" hi on eorðan god ealle gedemeð.