The Paris Psalter: Psalm 76

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Ic mid stefne ongann styrman to drihtne,
and he me gehyrde and beheold sona.
Ic on earfoðdæge ecne drihten
sohte mid handum swyþe geneahhe,

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and ic on niht for him neode eode;
næs ic on þam siðe beswicen awiht.
And ic swiðe wiðsoc sawle minre
fælre frofre; þa ic fæste god
gemyndgade, þær ic hæfde mæstne hiht.

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Swyðe ic begangen wæs and min sylfes gast
wæs hwonlice ormod worden,
wæron eagan mine eac mid wæcceum
werded swyþe; ne spræc ic worda feala.
þa ic ealde dagas eft geþohte,

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hæfde me ece gear ealle on mode.
Ic þa mid heortan ongann hycggean nihtes;
wæs min gast on me georne gebysgad.
þa ic sylfa cwæð: "Ic to soðe wat,
nele þis ece god æfre toweorpan

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ne us witnian for his weldædum,
oððe wiþ ende æfre to worulde
his milde mod mannum afyrran
on woruldlife wera cneorissum.
Ne byð æfre god ungemyndig,

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þæt he miltsige manna cynne,
oþþe on yrre æfre wille
his milde mod mannum dyrnan."
And ic selfa cwæð: "Nu ic sona ongann
þas geunwendnes wenan ærest

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þara hean handa haligan drihtnes,
weorca wræclicra worda gemyndig,
þæt he æt fruman wundor fæger geworhte."
þa ic metegian ongan mænigra weorca,
hu ic me on eallum þam eaðust geheolde;

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on eallum þinum weorcum ic wæs smeagende,
swylce ic on þinum gehylde sylf begangen.
Ys weruda god on wege halgum;
hwylc is mihtig god butan ure se mæra god?
þu eart ana god, þe æghwylc miht

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wundor gewyrcean on woruldlife.
Eft þu þine mihte mænige cyðdest
folcum on foldan; þu wiðferedes eac
Israhela bearn of ægyptum.
Hwæt, þe, wuldres god, wæter sceawedon

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and þe gesawon sealte yþa;
forhte wurdan flodas gedrefde,
wæs sweg micel sealtera wætera.
Sealdon weorðlice wolcnas stefne
þurh þine stræle strange foran;

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wæs þunurradstefn strang on hweole.
þonne ligette lixan cwoman,
eall ymbhwyrft eorðan onhrerdan.
Wærun wegas þine on widne sæ
and þine stige ofer strang wæter;

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ne bið þær eþe þin spor on to findanne.
Folc þin ðu feredest swa fæle sceap
þurh Moyses mihtige handa
and Aarones ealle gesunde.