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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 81
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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God mihtig stod godum on gemange,
and he hi on midle mægene tosceadeð.
Hu lange deme ge domas unrihte,
and ge onfoð ansyna synnwyrcendra?
- 5
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Demað steopcildum domas soðe
and eadmedum eac þæt sylfe,
wædlum and ðearfum wel soðfæstum.
Ge of firenfulra fæcnum handum
þearfan and wædlan þriste alysað.
- 10
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Ne ongeatan hi ne geara wistan,
ac hi on ðystrum þrage eodan;
ealle abeofedan eorðan staþelas.
Ic ærest cwæð: "Ge synd uppe godu,
ealle uphea, and æðele bearn.
- 15
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Ge þonne sweltað samod mid mannum,
swa ealdormann an gefealleð."
Aris drihten, nu! Dem eorðware,
forþan þu eart erfeweard ealra ðeoda.