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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 81

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

God mihtig stod      godum on gemange,
and he hi on midle      mægene tosceadeð.
Hu lange deme ge      domas unrihte,
and ge onfoð ansyna      synnwyrcendra?
5
Demað steopcildum      domas soðe
and eadmedum      eac þæt sylfe,
wædlum and ðearfum      wel soðfæstum.
Ge of firenfulra      fæcnum handum
þearfan and wædlan      þriste alysað.
10
Ne ongeatan hi      ne geara wistan,
ac hi on ðystrum      þrage eodan;
ealle abeofedan      eorðan staþelas.
Ic ærest cwæð:      "Ge synd uppe godu,
ealle uphea,      and æðele bearn.
15
Ge þonne sweltað      samod mid mannum,
swa ealdormann      an gefealleð."
Aris drihten, nu!      Dem eorðware,
forþan þu eart erfeweard      ealra ðeoda.