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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 145
Verse Indeterminate Saxon


Herige min sawl      hælend drihten,
and ic on minum life      lustum drihten
herige haligne      and holdum gode
sealmas singe,      þenden ic sylf lifige.

5

Nelle ge on ealdurmenn      ane getreowian,
ne on manna bearn;      nis þær mycel hælu.
Heora gast gangeð,      gearwe onwendeð
on þa eorðan      þe hi of comon;
of þam sylfan dæge      syðþan forweorðað

10

ealle þa geþohtas      þe hi þohtan ær.
þonne bið eadig      þe him æror wæs
Iacobes god      geara fultumiend,
and ær his hiht on god      hæfde fæste,
Se þe heofon worhte,      hrusan swylce

15

and sidne sæ      samed ætgædere,
and ealle þa þe him on      ahwær syndon.
He his soðfæst word      swylce gehealdeð,
and on worulde his      wise domas
deð gedefe      þe her deorce ær

20

teonan manige      torne geþoledan;
syleð mete swylce      þe her murcne ær
hungur heaðugrimne      heardne geþoledan.
Wreceð to ræde      rice drihten
þara manna bearn      þe ær man gebræc,

25

swylce þa gefetredan      fægre drihten
lungre alyseð      and him lif geofeð,
and blinde eac      bealde drihten
on heora eagum      eft onleohteð;
soðfæste drihten      swylce lufade.

30

þa elðeodigan      ealle drihten
lustum healdeð,      and lif geofeð
weodewum wencelum;      he hiom wel onfehð,
fyrenfulra weg      frecne toweorpeð.
Rixað mid ræde      rice drihten

35

on ecnesse      awa to feore,
and þin, Sione, god      symble to worulde.



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