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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 134
Verse Indeterminate Saxon


Heriað naman drihtenes,      neode swylce
herigen hine his scealcas      swiðe ealle.
Ge þe on godes huse      gleawe standað
and on cafertunum      Cristes huses

5

þæs godan godes      gearwe syndan,
Lofiað ge drihten,      forþon he lungre is
fæstræd and fremsum      fira æghwam;
weorðiað his naman,      forþon he wyrðe is.
Forðon him godne geceas      Iacob drihten

10

and on agene æht      Israeles cynn.
Ic þæt gearwe ongeat,      þæt is god and mycel
drihten ure;      forþon him dom standeð
ofer ealle godu      eorðbuendra.
Ealle þa þe wolde,      worhte drihten

15

on heofonrice      and her on eorðan,
on sidum sæ      swylce on eallum,
þær he dyrne wat      deorce grundas.
And he fram þysse eorðan      ende lædeð
wolcen wræclicu,      wind and liget,

20

and þa to regne      recene wyrceð,
þe forð lædeð      fægere windas
of his goldhordum      godra manegum;
se ægipta sloh      æðele frumbearn
æghwylc ealra      oð þa nytenu.

25

He sigetacen      sende manegum
forebeacn fæle      folce ægipta,
and þa Pharaones      folce gecyðde
and his scealcum      samed ætgædere.
Se sloh þeode folc      þearle manige,

30

and eac acwealde      cyningas strange.
Wæs Seon efne      sum þara kynincga,
and Og kyning,      se þe æror wæs
on Basane      breme and mære.
Sealde heora eardland      eall Israhelum

35

and heora yrfe      eac his folce.
Ys þin nama, drihten,      nemned ece,
and þin gemynd,      mihtig drihten,
on ealra worulda woruld      wynnum standeð.
Forþon his folc demeð      fægere drihten,

40

and he bið on his esnum      agenum frefriend.
Beoð deofolgyld      dysigra þeoda
gold and seolfur,      þe her geotað menn,
and mid heora folmum      fægere wyrceað.
þa muð habbað,      and ne meldiað wiht,

45

fægere eagan,      ne magon feor geseon.
Earan habbað,      ne hi awiht magon
holdes gehyran,      þeah ðe him hleoðrige,
and nose habbað,      nawiht gestincað.
Handa hi habbað,      ne hi hwæðere magon

50

gegrapian      godes awiht;
habbað fet swylce,      ne magon feala gangan.
Ne hi on hracan awiht      hlude ne cleopiað,
ne him gast warað      gomum on muðe.
Synt anlice þæm      þe hi ær worhtan,

55

and ealle þa ðe on hi      æfre getreowað.
Hus Israela      holdne drihten
bletsien bealde,      biddan swylce
þæt Aarones hus      ecne drihten
bliðe bletsien;      beornas ealle,

60

þa on lifes hus      leof eardiað,
bletsien drihten      bliðe mode.
þa þe him ondræden      drihtnes egsan,
bletsien drihten      beornas ealle;
se drihten is      deore gebletsad

65

of Sion sniome,      þe soðfæst ær
on Hierusalem      god eardode.
Ic andette      ecum drihtne,
forðon he god is,      and ic ful gearwe wat,
þæt he to worulde byð      wis and mildheort.




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