The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 64
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
þe gedafenað, drihten user,
þæt þe man on Sion swyðe herige
and on Hierusalem gylde and gehate.
Gehyr min gebed, halig drihten,
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for ðe sceal ælc flæsc forð siðian.
Synfulra word swyþe ofer usic
fræcne foran; þu gefultuma
urum misdædum, mihta wealdend.
He weorðeð eadig, se þe hine ece god
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cystum geceoseð and hine clæne hafað,
and on his earduncgstowum eardað syððan.
Ealle we ðin hus ecum godum
fægere fyllað; fæste is þin templ
ece and wræclic awa to feore.
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Gehyr us, hælend god, þu eart hyht ealra
þe on ðysse eorðan utan syndon
oþþe feor on sæ foldum wuniað.
þinre mihte sculon muntas hyran,
swylce þu gedrefest deope wælas
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þæt byð ormætum yþa hlude
and hi uneaðe mæg ænig aræfnan.
þeoda him ondrædað þinne egesan,
þe eard nymað utan landes;
for þinum wundrum forhte weorðað.
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ærmorgenes gancg wið æfentid
ealle þa deman drihten healdeð;
eorðan ðu gefyllest eceum wæstmum,
þæt heo welig weorþeð wera cneorissum.
Beoð godes streamas gode wætere
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fæste gefylde, þanan feorhnere
findað foldbuend, swa him fægere oft
gegearewadest, god lifigende.
Wæter yrnende wæstme tyddrað;
mænige on moldan manna cynnes
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on cneorisse cende weorðað,
and blissiað, blowað and growað
þurh dropunge deawes and renes.
þonne þu geares hring mid gyfe bletsast
and þine fremsumnesse wylt folcum dælan,
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þonne beoð þine feldas fylde mid wæstmum.
þonne on wæstmum weorðað mæsted,
and mid wynngrafe weaxað geswiru.
Hi beoð gegyrede godre wulle,
eowdesceapum; cumað eadilic
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wæstm on wangas weorðlic on hwætum;
þonne hi cynlice to ðe cleopiað sona,
and þe þonne lustum lofe þanciað.
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