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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 68
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Do me halne, god, forþon hreoh wæter
to minum feore inn floweð and gangeð;
eom ic on lame oflegd, hafað lytle sped.
Com ic on sæs hricg, þær me sealt wæter
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hreoh and hopig holme besencte.
þær ic werigmod wann and cleopode,
þæt me grame syndan goman hase;
byð me æt þam earon eagon wiðgangen;
hwæðere ic on god minne gearewe gewene.
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Hiora is mycle ma þonne ic me hæbbe
on heafde nu hæra feaxes,
þe me earwunga ealle feogeað.
Ofer me syndon þa þe me ehton,
fæstum folmum forð gestrangad
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feondas mine, and ic forð agef
unrihtlice þa þe ic ne reafude ær.
þu wast, wuldres god, þæt ic eom unwis hyges,
ne wæren þe bemiðene mine scylde.
Ne sceolon æt me ænige habban
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sceame sceandlice þe þines siðes her
ful bealdlice bidað, drihten.
þu eart mægena god; ne sceal æt me
ænige unare ahwær findan,
þe ðe Israela god ahwær seceað.
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Forþon ic edwit for þe oft aræfnade
and me hleorsceame hearde becwoman,
and ic framþe wearð fæderenbroðrum,
wæs unmæge gyst modorcildum.
Forþon me þines huses heard ellenwod
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æt ormæte and me eac fela
þinra edwita on gefeollon.
þonne ic minum feore fæsten gesette,
eall hi me þæt on edwit eft oncyrdan.
Gif ic mine gewæda on witehrægl
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cyme cyrde, cwædan hi syþþan,
þæt ic him wæfersyn wære eallum.
Me wiðerwearde wæron ealle,
þa him sæton sundor on portum;
spræcon me wraðe, þa þe win druncon.
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Ic þonne min gebed to þe, mihtig drihten,
tidum sende teala liciendlic,
and þu me þonne on mænigeo miltsa þinra
gehyre me hlutre hælu þine.
Alys me of lame, þe læs ic weorþe lange fæst,
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and me feondum afyrr, frea ælmihtig;
ado me of deope deorces wæteres,
þe læs me besencen sealte flodas.
Ne me huru forswelge segrundes deop
ne me se seað supe mid muðe.
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Gehyr, drihten, me, forþon gedefe is
þin milde mod mannum fremsum,
and for mænigeo miltsa þinra
geseoh on me swylce, drihten.
Ne acyr þu æfre fram þinum cnihte þin clæne gesyhð,
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forþan me feondas to feohtað geneahhe;
gehyr me hrædlice and me help freme.
Beheald mine sawle and hi hrædlice
alys and wiðfere laþum feondum.
arscame;
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for þinre ansyne ealle syndon
þe feondas me fæcne wurdon.
Min heorte gebad hearmedwit feala
and yrmðu mænig eac aræfnede;
næfde eorla þæs ænig sorge;
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frefrend ic sohte, findan ic ne mihte.
Hi minne mete mengdan wið geallan
and þa gedrugadne drenctan mid ecede.
Wese heora beod fore him wended on grine
and on edlean yfel and on æwisce.
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Syn hiora eagan eac adimmad,
þæt hi geseon ne magon syþþan awiht;
weorðe heora bæc swylce abeged eac.
Ageot ofer hi þin þæt grame yrre,
and æbylignes eac yrres þines
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hi forgripe gramhicgende.
Wese wic heora weste and idel;
ne on heora eðele ne sy þinc oneardiendes.
Forþon hi ealra ehtan ongunnon,
ðe þu him earfoðu ænig geafe,
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and me wean ecton minra wunda sar.
Asete him þa unriht to þe hi geearnedan,
and mid unrihte ær geworhton,
and hi on þin soðfæst weorc syþþan ne gangan.
Syn hi adilgad of gedefra eac
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þæra lifigendra leofra bocum;
ne wesen hi mid soðfæstum syþþan awritene.
Ic me sylfa eam sarig þearfa,
and me andwlita onfeng ecean drihtnes,
se me holdlice hælde sona.
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Nu ic naman drihtnes neode herige
and hine mid lofsange læde swylce.
Ic þam leofan gode licie swyþor
þonne æðele cealf, þeah þe him upp aga
horn on heafde oððe hearde cleo.
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Geseoð þæt and gefeoð, sarie þearfan,
seceað drihten and eower sawl leofað.
Forþam þa þearfendan þriste drihten
gehyreð holdlice; nyle he gehæfte eac
on heora neode na forhycgan.
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Herige hine swylce heofen and eorðe,
side sæflodas and þa him syndon on.
Forþon Sione god symble hæleð;
beoð mænige byrig mid Iudeum
eft getimbrade, þær hi eard nimað.
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þær hi yrfestol eft gesittað
and hiora eþel begytað esnas drihtenes,
and his naman neode lufiað,
þær eardiað awa to feore.