The Paris Psalter: Psalm 114

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Ic lufie þe, leofa drihten,
forþan þu mines gebedes bene gehyrdest.
And þu þin eare to me eadmodlice
hold ahyldest and gehyrdest me,

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þa ic þe on dagum minum dyrne cigde.
þar me ymbsealde swylde deaðes,
and me frecne ætfeah fyrhtu helle.
Me costung and sar cnyssedan geneahhe,
þonne ic naman drihtnes nyde cigde.

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Eala þu leofa god, alys mine nu
sawle on gesyntum; ic to soþan wat,
þæt þu wære mildheort, mihtig dryhten,
and ure god æghwæs soðfæst;
mihta us þine milde weorðan.

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Drihten gehealdeð dome þa lytlan;
ic hean gewearð, he me hraðe lysde.
Gecyr mine sawle clæne on þine
rædæs reste, rice drihten;
þu me wel dydest on woruldlife.

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Forþon þu mine sawle sylfa generedyst,
and hig of deopum deaþe gelæddest;
eagan mine wið tearum æghwær geheolde
and fet mine wið færslide;
ic gelicie leofum drihtne

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on lifigendra lande nu ða.