The Paris Psalter: Psalm 124
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Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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þa þe on drihten heora dædum getreowað,
hi beoð on Sionbeorge swyþe gelice;
ne mæg hine on ealdre ænig onhreran
þe eardfæst byð on Hierusalem.
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Hi synd mundbeorgas micle ymbutan;
haldeð heora ymbhwyrft ece drihten
of ðisson nu awa to worulde.
Næfre forlæteð lifes drihten
firenfulra tan furðor gangan,
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þonne he soðfæstra settan wylle.
Ne he soðfæste swylce læteð,
þæt hi to unrihte ahwær willen
handum ræcean, ac he him hraþe gyldeð;
do þu, drihten, wel þam þe gedefe her
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hiora heortan riht healdað mid gode.
þa ðe gearwe beoð to gramum bendum,
eft hi gelædeð ece drihten
mid þæm þe unriht æghwær wyrceað;
sibb si Israhelum symble ofer ealle.
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