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.