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Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 50
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Miserere mei, deus, secundam magnam misericordiam tuam.
Mildsa me, mihtig drihten, swa ðu manegum dydest,
æfter ðinre þære mycelan mildheortnysse.
Auerte faciem tuam a peccatis meis, et omnes iniquitates meas dele.
Awend þine ansyne a fram minum
fræcnum fyrenum, and nu forð heonon
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eall min unriht adwæsc æghwær symle.
Cor mundum crea in me, deus, et spiritum rectum innoua in uisceribus meis.
Syle me, halig god, heortan clæne,
and rihtne gast, god, geniwa
on minre gehigde huru, min drihten.
Ne proicias me a facie tua, et spiritum sanctum tuum ne auferas a me.
Ne awyrp þu me, wuldres ealdor,
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fram ðinre ansyne æfre to feore,
ne huru on weg aber þone halgan gast,
þæt he me færinga fremde wyrðe.
Redde michi lætitiam salutaris tui, et spiritu principali confirma me.
Syle me þinre hælu holde blisse,
and me ealdorlice æþele gaste
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on ðinne willan getryme, weroda drihten.