The Paris Psalter: Psalm 61

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Ic mine sawle symble wylle
full gleawlice gode underþeodan;
æt him is hælu min her eall gelancg.
Hwæt, he is god min and gearu hælend;

5

is he fultum min, ic ne forhtige wiht.
ðonne ge mid mane men ongunnon,
ealle ge ða to deadan dædun sona,
swa ge awurpon wah of stofne.
Swa ge mine are ealle þohton

10

wraðe toweorpan, wide urnon
þurstige muðe; þæne bletsadan
and ðone wyrgedan wraðe mid heortan.
Hwæðere ic me soðe sawle mine
to gode hæfde georne geðeoded;

15

he minre geðylde þingum wealdeð.
Hwæt, he is god min and gleaw hælend
and fultum is; ne mæg ic hine ahwær befleon.
On gode standeð min gearu hælu
and wuldor min and wyn mycel;

20

me is halig hyht on hine swylce.
Hycge him halig folc hælu to drihtne;
doð eowre heortan hige hale and clæne,
forðon eow god standeð georne on fultum.
Hwæðere ge, manna bearn, manes unlyt

25

wyrceað on wægum and woh doð,
and eow beswicað sylfe oftast,
þær ge idel gylp on þam ilcan fremmað.
Nellað ge gewenan welan unrihte
oþþe to reaflace ræda þencean.

30

þeah þe eow wealan to wearnum flowen,
nyllan ge eow on heortan þa hige staðelian;
æne ic god spræcan gearuwe gehyrde
and þæt treowe ongeat tidum gemeldad.
Miht is drihtnes ofer middangeard

35

and him þæs to worlde wuldor stande
and mildheortness, þæt he manna gehwam
æfter his agenum earnungum demeð,
efne swa he wyrceð on worldlife.