The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 107
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Ys min heorte gearu, halig drihten,
gearu is min heorte, þæt ic gode cweme,
sealmas singe soþum drihtne.
Aris nu, wuldur min, þæt ic wynlice
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on psalterio þe singan mote,
and ic ðe on hleoðre hearpan swylce
on ærmergen eac gecweme.
Ic þe andette, ece drihten,
on folca gehwam fægrum wordum,
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and ic þe on ðeodum on þanc mote
sealmas singan swyþe geneahhe.
Is þin mildheort mod mycel oð heofenas
ahafen healice ofer hæleða bearn;
ys þin soðfæstnes seted oþ wolcen.
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Ahafen þu eart ofer heofenas, halig drihten;
is wuldur ðin wide swylce
ofer þas eorðan ealle mære,
and þine þa gecorenan wesan clæne
and alysde.
Do me þin swyðre hand swylce halne
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and me gehyre, hælynd drihten,
þe on halgum spreceð her on eorðan:
"And ic blissige, bu gedæle,
þa selegesceotu, þa on Sycimam nu
and on Metibor mære standað.
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Min is Galaad, gearwe Mannases,
is Effrem his agen broður
efne heah strengðu heafdes mines.
Ic me to cyninge cenne Iudas,
syndan me Moabitingas magas swylce;
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ic Idumea ealle cenne
and min gescy þyder sendan þence;
syndan me fremde cynn fæste underþeoded."
Hwylc gelædeð me on lifes byrig
fæste getrymede, þæt ic forð
þanon
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on Idumea wese eft gelæded?
Hwæt, þu eart se sylfa god, þe us
synnige iu
adrife fram dome; ne do þu æfre swa,
þæt þu of urum mægene mod acyrre.
Syle us on earfoðum æþelne fultum;
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forþon hælu byð her on eorðan
manna gehwylces mægene idel.
Us sceal mægenes gemet mihtig
drihten
soðfæst syllan, and he sona mæg
ure feond gedon fracuþe to nawihte.
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