The Paris Psalter: Psalm 145

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Herige min sawl hælend drihten,
and ic on minum life lustum drihten
herige haligne and holdum gode
sealmas singe, þenden ic sylf lifige.

5

Nelle ge on ealdurmenn ane getreowian,
ne on manna bearn; nis þær mycel hælu.
Heora gast gangeð, gearwe onwendeð
on þa eorðan þe hi of comon;
of þam sylfan dæge syðþan forweorðað

10

ealle þa geþohtas þe hi þohtan ær.
þonne bið eadig þe him æror wæs
Iacobes god geara fultumiend,
and ær his hiht on god hæfde fæste,
Se þe heofon worhte, hrusan swylce

15

and sidne sæ samed ætgædere,
and ealle þa þe him on ahwær syndon.
He his soðfæst word swylce gehealdeð,
and on worulde his wise domas
deð gedefe þe her deorce ær

20

teonan manige torne geþoledan;
syleð mete swylce þe her murcne ær
hungur heaðugrimne heardne geþoledan.
Wreceð to ræde rice drihten
þara manna bearn þe ær man gebræc,

25

swylce þa gefetredan fægre drihten
lungre alyseð and him lif geofeð,
and blinde eac bealde drihten
on heora eagum eft onleohteð;
soðfæste drihten swylce lufade.

30

þa elðeodigan ealle drihten
lustum healdeð, and lif geofeð
weodewum wencelum; he hiom wel onfehð,
fyrenfulra weg frecne toweorpeð.
Rixað mid ræde rice drihten

35

on ecnesse awa to feore,
and þin, Sione, god symble to worulde.