Northern European Mythology
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 60
Sacred Texts
Legends and Sagas
WordGumbo: Old English Dictionaries [External Site]
Index
Previous
Next
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 60
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
-
Gehyr, halig god, hraþe mine bene,
beheald mine gebed holde mode.
Nu ic of eorðan utgemærum
cleopige to þe, nu me caru beateð
- 5
-
heard æt heortan, help min nu þa;
ahefe me holdlice on halne stan.
þu me gelæddest mid lufan hyhte,
wære me se stranga tor stið wið feondum.
Ic eardige awa to feore
- 10
-
on ðinum selegesceote; þær me softe byð,
þær ic beo fægere beþeaht fiðerum ðinum.
Forðon ðu gehyrdest, halig drihten,
hu min gebed to ðe beorhte eode;
yrfe þu sealdest anra gehwylcum,
- 15
-
se þe naman ðinne þurh neod forhtað.
Dæg byð ofer dæge, þær byð gedefe cynincg;
beoð his winter eac wynnum iced,
oð þone dæg þe he on drihtnes sceal
on ansyne andweard gangan,
- 20
-
and þær to worlde wunian ece.
Hwylc seceð þæt þe soðfæst byð?
Swa ic naman ðinum neode singe,
þæt ic min gehat her agylde
of dæge on dæg, swa hit gedefe wese.