The Paris Psalter: Psalm 127
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Eadige syndon ealle þe him ecne
god
drihten ondrædað, and his gedefne weg
on hyra lifes tid lustum gangað.
þonne þu þines gewinnes wæstme
byrgest,
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etest oretes, and þu eadig leofast,
and þe wel weorðeð on wynburgum.
Beoð þines wifes welan gelice,
swa on wingearde weaxen berigean,
and on þines huses hwommum genihtsum.
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Synd þine bearn swylce samed anlicast,
swa elebeamas æþele weaxen,
ymb þinne beod utan blæda standen.
Efne swa bið gebletsad beorna æghwylc
mann on moldan þe him metodes ege
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on his dædum drihten forhtað.
þe of Sionbeorge swylce drihten
bealde bletsige, and þu bruce eac
on Hierusalem goda gehwylces
ealle lange dagas lifes þines.
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And þu þinra bearna bearn sceawige,
geseo samed gangan sibb ofer Israhel.
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