The Paris Psalter: Psalm 75
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Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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God wæs geara cuð mid Iudeum,
and his æþele nama mid Israelum.
Is on sibbe his stow soþe behealden,
and he on Sione swylce eardað.
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þær he hornbogan hearde gebendeð,
and sweord and sceld æt gescotfeohta.
þu wræclice wundrum onlyhtest
fram þam eceum hider æðelum beorgum;
ealle synt yrre, þa þe unwise
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heora heortan hige healdað mid dysige;
hi slæp hiora swæfun unmurne;
ne þær wiht fundan, þa þe welan sohtan,
þæs þe hi on handum hæfdan godes.
For þinre þrea þriste ongunnon,
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Iacobes god, georne slepan,
þa þe on horsum hwilon wæron;
is þin egesa mycel; hwylc mæg æfre þe,
gif þu yrre byst, ahwær wiðstandan?
þonne þu of heofenum dom hider on eorþan
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mid gescote sendest, þonne hio swyþe beofað;
ðonne to dome drihten ariseð,
þæt he on eorðan do ealle hale
þe he mildheorte meteð and findeð.
Forþon ðe mannes geþoht mægen andetteð,
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and þonne þa lafe lustum þence,
þæt ic þe symbeldæg sette and gyrwe.
Gehatað nu drihtne, and him hraðe gyldað
eowrum þam godan gode georne;
ealle þe on ymbhwyrfte ahwær syndan,
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him gyfe bringen gode and clæne.
To þam egsan sceal æghwylc habban,
þe wera gastum wealdeð and healdeð;
eorðcynincgum se ege standeð.
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