The Paris Psalter: Psalm 79

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

þu þe Israela æðelum cynne
reccest and rædest, ðu nu recene beheald,
þu ðe Ioseph swa sceap gramum wiðlæddest.
ðu ðe sylfa nu sittest ofer cherubin,

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æteow fore Effraim eac Mannasse
and Beniamin, nu we biddað þe.
Awece þine mihte and mid wuldre cum,
and us hale do her on eorðan.
Gehweorf us, mægena god, and us mildne æteow

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þinne andwlitan; ealle we beoð hale.
Eala ðu, mægena god, mære drihten,
hu lange yrsast þu on þines esnes gebed?
Tyhst us and fedest teara hlafe,
and us drincan gifest deorcum tearum

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manna gehwylcum on gemet rihtes.
þu us asettest on sarcwide
urum neahmannum; nu we cunnion,
hu us mid fraceðum fynd bysmriað.
Gehweorf us, mægena god, and us mildne æteow

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þinne andwlitan; ealle we beoð hale.
þu of ægyptum ut alæddest
wræstne wingeard, wurpe þeode
and þone ylcan ðær eft asettest.
þu him weg beforan worhtest rihtne,

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and his wyrtruman wræstne settest,
þanon eorðe wearð eall gefylled.
His se brada scua beorgas þeahte,
and his tanas astigun godes cedderbeam.
Ealle þa telgan ðe him of hlidað,

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þu æt sæstreamas sealte gebræddest,
and hi to flodas forð aweaxað.
Forhwan þu towurpe weallfæsten his?
Wealdeð his winbyrig eall þæt on wege færð.
Hine utan of wuda eoferas wrotað,

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and wilde deor westað and frettað.
Gehweorf nu, mægena god, milde and spedig
þine ansyne ufan of heofenum;
gewite and beseoh wingeard þisne,
þæt he mid rihte ræde gange,

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þæne ðin seo swiðre sette æt frymðe,
and ofer mannes sunu, þe þu his mihte ær
under ðe getrymedest, tires wealdend.
Fyr onbærneð, folm þurhdelfeð;
fram ansyne egsan ðines

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ealle þa on ealdre yfele forweorðað.
Si þin seo swiðre hand ofer soðne wer
and ofer mannes sunu; þu his mihta ðe
geagnadest, ealle getrymedest,
weoruda drihten; ne gewitað we fram ðe.

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Ac þu us wel cwica, wealdend mihtig;
we naman þinne neode cigeað.
Gehweorf us, mægena