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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 65
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ealle eorðbuend ecne drihten
wordum wislicum wide herian,
and his naman secgeað neode mid sealmum
and him wuldres lof wide syllað.
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And gode secgeað, hu his þa goodan weorc
syndon wundorlice wide geond eorðan,
and eac on menigeo mægenes þines
þine feondas þe fæcne leogað.
Geweorðie wuldres ealdor
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eall ðeos eorþe, ecne drihten;
and þe singe eac, secge geneahhie,
þæt þin nama is ofer eall niða bearn
se hehsta hæleþa cynnes.
Cumað nu and geseoð, hu cyme weorc
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drihten worhte; synt his domas eac
swiþe egeslice ofer eall ylda bearn.
He mæg onwendan wætera ðryðe,
þæt þas deopan sæ drige weorðað,
and þa strangan mæg streamas swylce
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gefeterian, þæt þu mid fote miht
on treddian eorðan gelice.
His mægen wealdeð ofer eall manna cyn
on ecnesse awa to feore,
and he ofer ealle þeode eagum wliteð;
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þa hine on yrre æghwær gebringað,
ne beoð þa on him sylfum syððan ahafene.
Bletsigen þeoda bliðe mode
ealle eorðbuend ecne drihten
and mid stefne lof strang asecgean.
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He mine sawle sette to life,
ne læteð mine fet laðe hreran.
Ure costade god clæne fyre
soðe dome, swa man seolfor deð,
þonne man hit aseoðeð swyðe mid fyre.
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þu us on grame swylce gryne gelæddest,
and us bealuwa fela on bæce standeð;
settest us mænige eac men ofer heafod.
We þuruh fyr farað and þuruh floda þrym,
and ðu us on colnesse clæne gelæddest.
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Ic on þin hus halig gange
and þær tidum þe tifer onsecge;
þær ic min gehat mid hyge gylde,
þæt mine weleras ær wise gedældan.
þas ic mid muðe aspræc mine æt þearfe,
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þær me costunge cnyssedan geneahhe,
þæt ic ðe on tifrum teala forgulde
ealle þa gehat, þe ic æfre her
mid minum welerum wis todælde.
Gehyrað me and her cumað;
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ic eow mid soþe secgean wylle,
gif ge godes egesan georne habbað,
hu mycel he dyde minre sawle.
þuruh his mihte ic muðe cleopige
oþþe mine tungan tidum blissade.
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Gif ic me unrihtes oncneow awiht on heortan,
ne wite me þæt, wealdend drihten.
Forðon me gehyrde hælend drihten,
and minre stefne beheold strange bene.
Drihten si gebletsad, þe he ne dyde æfre
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nymðe he mine bene bealde gehyrde,
ne his milde mod me dyde fremde.