The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 85
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Ahyld me þin eare, halig drihten;
forðon ic eom wædla, þu me wel gehyr,
and ic sylfa eom sorhfull þearfa.
Geheald mine sawle, forðon ic halig eom;
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hæl þinne scealc, forþon ic ðe
hihte to.
Miltsa me drihten, þonne ic mægene to ðe
þurh ealne dæg elne cleopade;
do þines scealces sawle bliðe,
forðon ic hi to ðe hebbe genehhige.
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Forðon þu eart wynsum, wealdend drihten;
is þin milde mod mycel and genihtsum
eallum þam þe þe elne cigeað.
þu mid earum onfoh, ece drihten,
min agen gebed, and eac beheald,
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hu ic stefne to ðe stundum cleopige.
þonne me on dæge deorc earfoðe
carelice cnyssedan, þonne ic cleopode to ðe;
forþon þu me gehyrdest holde mode.
Nis þe goda ænig on gumrice
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ahwær efne gelic, ece drihten,
ne ðe weorc magon wyrcean anlic.
Ealle þu geworhtest wera cneorissa,
þa þe weorðiað, wuldres aldor,
and naman drihtnes neode cigeað.
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Forðan ðu eart se mycla mihtiga drihten,
þe wundor miht wyrcean ana.
Gelæd, drihten, me on þinne leofne weg,
and ic on þinum soðe syþþan gancge.
Heorte min ahlyhheð, þonne ic ðinne halgan
naman
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forhtige me on ferhðe, forð andette
mid ealre heortan hyge, þæt þu eart,
halig god,
nemned drihten, and we naman þinne
on ecnesse a weorðien.
Ys þin mildheortnes mycel ofer me, drihten,
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and þu mine sawle swylce alysdest
of helwarena hinderþeostrum.
God min se leofa, gramhydige me
mid unrihte oft onginnað,
and gesamnincge swiðmihtigra
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sohton mine sawle swyþe geneahhe;
ne doð him for awiht egsan drihtnes.
Hwæt, þu eart, min drihten god, dædum
mildheort,
þenden geðyldig, þearle soðfæst.
Beseoh nu on me, and me syþþan weorð
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milde on mode, mihtig drihten;
geteoh hrore meaht hysse þinum;
do þinre þeowan sunu, drihten, halne.
Do gedefe mid me, drihten, tacen,
and þæt god ongitan, þa me georne
ær
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fæste feodan, habban forð sceame.
Forþon þu me wære fultum fæste,
drihten,
and me frefredest, frea ælmihtig.
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