The Paris Psalter: Psalm 74
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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 74

The Paris Psalter: Psalm 74

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

We þe andettað, ecne drihten,
and þe andettað ealle þeoda
and naman þinne neode ciegen.
Ic þin wundur eall wræclic sæcge,
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swa ic fæstlicast mæg befon wordum,
and eac soð symble deme.
Eorðe is gemolten and hire eardend mid;
ic þonne hire swyre symble getrymme.
Ic to yflum cwæð oft nalæs seldan:
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"Nelle ge unriht ænig fremman
and agyltan, þæt hi ne gulpan þæs.
Ne ahebbað ge to hea eowre hygeþancas,
ne ge wið gode æfre gramword sprecan."
Forþon eastan ne cymeð gumena ænig,
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ne of westwegum wera cneorissa,
ne of þissum westum widum morum;
forþon him is dema drihten sylfa.
Sumne he gehyneð, sumne ahefeð sniome;
forþon se wines steap on waldendes handa
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fægere gefylled is; þæs onfehð þe he ann.
þonne he of þysum on þæt þonne oncerreð,
nyle he þa dærstan him don unbryce;
forþam sculon ealle drincan synfulle,
þa on þysse foldan fyrene wyrceað;
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ic þonne worulde gefean wynnum healde,
and Iacobes gode georne singe.
Ealra fyrenfulra fyhtehornas
ic bealdlice gebrece sniome;
swyþe beoð ahafene þa soðfæstan.
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