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Fragments of Psalms: Psalm 58

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Eripe me de inimicis meis, deus meus, et ab insurgentibus in me libera me.
Ahrede me, halig god,         hefiges niðes
feonda minra,         þe me feohtað to;
alys me fram laðum         þe me lungre on
risan willað,         nymþe þu me ræd gife.
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Eripe me de operantibus iniquitatem, et de uiris sanguinum salua me.
Genere me fram niðe         nahtfremmendra
þe her unrihtes         ealle wyrceað,
and me wið blodhreowes weres         bealuwe gehæle.