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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 58
Verse Indeterminate Saxon


Ahrede me, halig god,      hefiges niðes
feonda minra,      ðe me feohtað to;
alys me fram laðum      þe me lungre on
risan willað,      nymðe þu me ræd geofe.

5

Genere me fram niþe      nahtfremmendra
þe her unrihtes      ealle wyrceað,
and me wið blodhreowes weres      bealuwe gehæle.
þi nu mine sawle      swiþe bysige
feondas mine      fæcne ofþryhtun,

10

and me strange eac      stundum ongunnon;
ne me unrihtes on      awiht wistan,
ne ic firene eac      fremde drihtne.
Gif ic on unriht bearn,      ic þæs eft geswac;
on minne geanryne,      aris ðu, drihten, nu,

15

and ðu sylfa gesyhst,      þæt ic swa dyde;
þu eart mægena god,      mihtig drihten,
and Israela god      æghwær æt þearfe.
Beheald holdlice,      hu þu hraðe wylle
geneosian      niða bearna

20

ealra ðeoda      æghwær landes;
ne þu hweðere on mode      milde weorðest
eallum ðe unriht      elne wyrceað.
Hi æt æfene eft      in gecyrrað,
þonne hy heardne      hungor þoliað,

25

swa hundas ymbgað      hwommas ceastre.
Efne hi habbað on muðe      milde spræce,
is him on welerum      wrað sweord and scearp.
þonne gehyreð hwylc,      hwæt hyra hyge seceð?
And ðu hi, drihten, dest      deope to bysmre;

30

nafast þu for awiht      ealle þeoda.
Ic mine strengðe on ðe      strange gehealde,
forðon þu me god eart      geara andfencgea,
and mildheortnes      mines drihtnes
me fægere becom,      þær me wæs freondes þearf.

35

Min se goda god, ætyw me      þin agen good
for minum feondum,      þe me feale syndun;
ne do hy to deadan,      þy læs hi dollice
þinre æ geban      anforlæton.
Ac þu hi wide todrif      þurh þines wordes mægen,

40

and hi wraðe toweorp,      wealdend min drihten.
Ys hyra muðes scyld      manworda feala,
ða hi mid welerum      wraðe aspræcan;
wærun hi on oferhygde      ealle gescende,
þa hi on lige      lange feredon;

45

forðon hi on ende      yrre forgripeð
and hi syþþan ne beoð      samod ætgædere.
Syððan hi wisslice witon,      þætte wealdeð god
ofer middangeard      manna cynnes
and ealra eac      eorðan gemæru.

50

Hi on æfenne      eft gecyrrað
and heardne eac      hungor ðoliað,
swa hundas ymbgað      hwommas ceastre.
Efne hi to æte      ut gewitað,
þær hi towrecene      wide hweorfað;

55

gif hi fulle ne beoð,      fela gnorniað.
Ic þonne ðine strengþu      stundum singe
and ðin milde mod      morgena gehwylce.
Forðon þu min andfengea      æghwær wære
and ic helpe æt ðe      hæfde symble,

60

þonne me costunge      cnysedon geneahhige;
þu eart fultum min,      ic ðe fela singe.
Forðon þu me, god, eart      geara andfengea
and mildheortnes,      mihtig drihten.



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