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

5

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.

10

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.

15

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

20

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.

25

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.