The Paris Psalter: Psalm 141
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Min stefn to þe styrmeð, drihten,
and ic mid strangere stefne swylce
eam biddende bealde drihten.
Ic mine bene bealde swylce
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on his gesihðe symble ageote,
and mine earfeþu ealle full georne
fore him sylfum sæcge geneahhe,
Gif mine grame þenceað gast teorian,
and þu mine stige strange ongeate.
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On þyssum grenan wege, þe ic gange on,
me oferhydige æghwær setton
gearwe grine; geara ic sceawade,
geseah on þa swyðran, ne me sylfne þær
ænig mid gode ongitan wolde.
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ða me eac frecne fram fleam gedydan,
næs þa þe mine sawle secean wolde,
þa ic to þe, drihten, digle cleopode
and sona cwæð: "þu eart min se soða
hiht;
eart þu on lifigendra lande swylce
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se gedefa dæl, drihten, æghwær."
Beheald mine sawle, hæleþa wealdend,
forþon ic geeadmeded eom ungemete swiðe.
Alys me fram laþum; hi me lungre synt
ealle ofer me ungemete strange.
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Alæd me of carcernes cluse swylce
mine sawle, þæt ic syþþan forð
þinne naman mote neode sæcgean.
Min soðfæste snotere bidað,
oþþæt þu me edlean eft forgylde.
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