The Paris Psalter: Psalm 125
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
þonne drihten wyle gedon æfter,
þæt he of Sione swære ahweorfe
hæftned hefige, syððan we hraðe weorðað
afrefrede fægere ealle.
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Sona beoð gefylde mid gefean syþþan
muðas ure, and we ma sprecað,
beoð ure tungan teala wynsume.
þonne hi geond þeode cweðað þriste;
æghwær hi gemiclade mihtig drihten,
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þa he him wundur mid worhte seldlic;
gemicla ðe swylce, mihtig drihten,
þæt þu wundur mid us wyrce mære,
and we bealde on þam bliðe weorðan.
Gehweorf ure hæftned, halig drihten,
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swa suðhealde swiþe hlimman.
þa her on tornlicum tearum sawað,
hi eft fægerum gefean sniðað;
gangende and ferende georne wepað
and heora sylfra sæd sniðað æfter.
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Cumað þonne mid cumendum cuðe mid blisse
and on heora sceafas berað, swa hi gesamnedon.
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