The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 139
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Genere me wið niþe on naman þinum
fram yfelum menn, ece drihten,
and fram þam were, þe wom fremme.
þa ealne dæg inwit and facen
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hycgeað on heortan þurh
hearme geþoht,
hi þæt to gefeohte georne gefremed habbað.
And heora tungan torncwidum
neode serwað, swa oft nædran doð,
and him aspidas, ætrene wyrmas,
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under welerum is gewunad fæste.
Geheald þu me, drihten, wið heteniðas
and wið firenfulles folmum swylce,
and fram þam mannum þe man fremmen,
alys þu me lungre, lifes ealdur.
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þa on hyge þohtan, þæt hi ahyltan
me
and minne gang georne swylce,
forhyddan oferhygde me inwitgyrene,
wraðan wealsadan wundnum rapum;
woldan mine fotas gefæstnian,
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settan me swyce, þær ic
siþade.
Ic þa to drihtne cwæð: "þu me
eart dyre god;
gehyr min gebed, halig drihten,
nu ic stefne to þe styrme hlude."
Drihten, drihten, þu eart gedefe mægen
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hælo minre, and þu min heafod
scealt
on gefeohtdæge feondum awergean.
Ne alyf þu me æfre ofer lust minne
on fyrenfulra fæcne geðancas,
þa wiðerwearde me wraðe hycgeað;
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ne forlæt þu me on lifdagum,
þy læs hi ahafene ofer me hwile weorðen.
Him ymb heafod hefegast gewinna,
þæt hi mid welerum geworht habbað,
him þæt ilce sceal on gesittan.
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Eac hi feallað on fyres glede,
and þu hi mid fyre facnes gehnegest,
þæt hi þam yrmðum a ne wiðstanden.
Se getynga wer on teosuspræce,
ne bið se ofer eorþan gereaht ahwær;
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unsoðfæstne wer yfel gecnysseð,
oþþe he on eorðan eall forweorðeð.
Ic þæt gearuwe ongeat, þæt
gode deð
drihten domas, þe on dagum þyssum
wædlum weorðað, wreceð þearfendra.
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Soð is hwæðere, soðfæste nu
þinne naman willað þuruh neod herigean;
scylan eard niman on þinre ansyne,
þa mid ræde her rihte lifigeað.
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