The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 91
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
God is, þæt man drihtne geara andette
and neodlice his naman asinge,
þone heahestan hæleða cynnes;
And þonne on morgene mægene sæcge,
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hu he milde wearð manna cynne,
and his soðe sæcge nihtes.
Hwæt, ic on tyn strengum getogen hæfde,
hu ic þe on psalterio singan mihte
oððe þe mid hearpan hlyste cweman,
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forðon þu me on þinum weorcum wisum
lufadest;
hihte ic to þinra handa halgum dædum.
Hu micle synt þine mægenweorc, mihtig drihten;
wærun þine geðancas þearle deope.
Wonhydig wer þæs wiht
ne cann,
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ne þæs andgit hafað ænig dysigra.
þonne forð cumað fyrenfulra ðreat,
heap synnigra hige onlic;
ealle þær ætywað, þa ðe
unrihtes
on weoruldlife worhtan geornast,
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þæt hi forwordene weorðen syþþan
on worulda woruld and to widan feore.
þu on ecnesse awa, drihten,
heahesta bist, heofonrices weard.
þi nu ðine feond fæcne, drihten,
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on eorðwege ealle forweorþað,
and weorðað towrecene wide ealle,
þa þe unrihtes æror worhtan.
þonne anhorna ealra gelicost,
min horn weorðeð ahafen swiðe
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and mine yldo beoð æghwær
genihtsum.
And eage þin eac sceawode,
hwær fynd mine fæcne wæran,
and mine wergend wraðe gehyrde
efne þin agen eare swylce.
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Se soðfæsta samed anlicast
beorht on blædum bloweð swa palma,
and swa Libanes beorh lideð and groweð.
Settað nu georne on godes huse,
þæt ge on his wicum wel geblowan.
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Nu gyt syndan manige manna swylce,
þe hiom yldo gebidan ær to genihte,
and þa mid geþylde þenden sægdan,
Cwædon, þæt wære soðfæst
sylfa drihten
and hine unrihtes awyht ne heolde.
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