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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 63
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Gehyr min gebed, halig drihten,
nu me costunge cnyssað geneahhe,
and wið egesan yfeles feondes
mine sawle gescyld symle æt þearfe.
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þu me oft aweredest wyrigra gemotes
and fram þære menegeo þe man woldon
and unrihte æghwær fremman.
þa heora tungan teoð teonan gehwylce
sweorde efenscearpe and heora swiðne bogan,
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and unscyldige mid þy scotian þenceað.
Hi hine samnuncga scearpum strelum
on scotiað, egsan ne habbað,
ac hi mid wraðum wordum trymmað
and sare sprecað: Hwa gesyhð usic?
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Swa hi smeagað oft swiðost unriht
and on þam ilcan eft forweorðað,
þær hi mamriað man and unriht.
Gangeð man manig modig on heortan,
oðþæt hine ahefeð hælend drihten.
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Syndon hyra wita scytelum cilda
æghwæs onlicost; ne him awiht þon ma
heora tungan nu teonan on sittað.
Ealle synd gedrefede þe hi on sioð;
sceal him manna gehwylc man ondrædan
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and weorc godes wide mærsian
and his weorc ongitan mid wisdome.
Se soðfæsta symble on drihten
blissað baldlice, bote geweneð,
and hine heriað eac heortan clæne.