The Paris Psalter: Psalm 59

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

þu us todrife, drihten user,
and us towurpe geond werþeoda,
yrre us wurde and eft milde.
Eorðan ðu onhrerdest, ealle gedrefdest;

5

hæl hyre wunde, nu heo ahrered is.
Feala ðu ætywdest folce ðinum
heardra wisan and hi hraþe æfter
mid wynsume wine drenctest.
þu becnuncge beorhte sealdest

10

þam þe ege ðinne elne healdað,
þæt hi him gebeorgen bogan and stræle
and wæron alysede leofe þine.
Do me þin seo swyðre hand symle halne;
gehyr me, halig god. Hwæt, ðu holdlice

15

on ðinre halignesse her aspræce:
"And ic blissie, ba gedæle
Sicimam et Conuallem, ða samod wæron
on Metiboris mihtum spedige.
Min is Galaad, gleaw Mannases

20

and Effrem ys æðele strengþu
heafdes mines her on foldan.
Cyninc ys me Iuda cuð;
is me Moab mines hyhtes hwer,
and ic aðenige eac on Idumea,

25

min gescy sende, and me syððan gedo
Allophilas ealle gewylde."
Hwylc gelædeð me leofran on ceastre
weallum beworhte? Hwa wyle swylce me
in Idumea eac gelædan?

30

Ac ne eart þu se sylfa god, ðe us swa drife?
Ne ga ðu us on mægene, mihtig drihten.
Syle us nu on earfoðum æðelne fultum,
forðon hælu byð her on eorðan
manna gehwylces mægene idel.

35

Us sceal mægenes gemet mihtig drihten
soðfæst syllan, and he sona mæg
ure fynd gedon fracoþe to nahte.