The Paris Psalter: Psalm 52
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
On his heortan cwæð unhydig sum,
ungleawlice, þætte god nære;
heo onsceoniendlice syndon gewordene
and heora willan wraðe besmitene.
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Næs þa goddoend se þe god wiste,
ne an furðum ealra wære.
þa of heofenum beseah halig drihten
ofer manna bearn, hwæðer his mihta ða
andgyt ænig ealra hæfde,
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oððe god wolde georne secan.
Ealle heo on ane idelnesse
symle besegan; þa wæs soð
nan mann
þe god wolde georne wyrcan;
ne an furþum ealra wære.
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Ac ge þæs ealle ne magon andgyt habban
þe unrihtes elne wyrceað
and min folc fretað swa fælne hlaf,
ne hio god wyllað georne ciegan;
þær hio forhtigað, frecnes egesan
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æniges ne þurfon.
Forþam manna ban mihtig drihten
liste tosceadeð, þa him
liciað;
beoð þa gehyrwede þe
forhycggeað god.
Hwylc Israela ece hælu
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syleð of Sione nymðe sylfa god,
þonne he his folc fægere alyseð
of hæftnyde, halig drihten?
þonne Iacob byð on glædum sælum
and Israelas ealle bliðe.
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