The Paris Psalter: Psalm 131 University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/A.5.5.131 Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Library of Congress Subject Headings English, Old (ca. 450-1100) Poems The Paris Psalter: Psalm 131
gemune þu drihten mærne dauid and ealle his mannþwærnesse micle and goode
swa ic æt frymþe geswor ferhþe wiþ drihten and gehat gehet he geheold teala wiþ iacobes god þone mæran
þeah þe ic on mines huses hyld gegange oþþe selegesceot þænne swæs wese oþþe on min restbedd ricene gestige
gif ic minum eagum unne slæpes oþþe minum breawum beode hnappunga oþþe ic on þunwange þriste gereste
oþþæt ic gemete mære stowe drihtne gecorene dyre selegesceot iacobes gode georne gecweme
efne we þas eall on eufraten sæcgean gehyrdon syþþan gemitton forwel manegu on wudufeldum
we on his selegesceot swylce gangaþ and þære stowe stede ariaþ þær his fotas ær fæste gestodan
aris on þinre reste recene drihten þu earce eart eallhaligra
synd þine sacerdas on soþfæstnesse gode gegierede and gleawe nu þine þa halgan her blissiaþ
for þinum agenum esne swylce deorum dauide þu ne do æfre þæt þu andwlitan ut oncyrre þines þæs halgan her on eorþan
þæs deopne aþ drihten aswor and þone mid soþe swylce getrymede þæt he hine for hole ær ne aswore gehet dauide swa he him dyde syþþan
þæt he weorþlicne wæstm gesette þe of his innaþe agenum cwome ofer þin heahsetl gif nu healdaþ well þines sylfes bearn soþe treowa and þa gewitnesse þe ic hig wel lære
þonne hiora suna swylce motan a þysse worulde wynnum brucan and on þinum setle sittan geneahhe
forþon him sione geceas sylfa drihten and him to earde geceas ærest æt frymþe
þis is min rest þe ic recene nu on worulda woruld wunian þence þær ic eard nime forþon ic hi ær geceas
his wuduan ic wordum bletsige and gesegnade sylle geneahhe heora hungrium hlaf to fylle
ec his sacerdas swylce mid hælu georne gegyrwe and gode eac his þa halgan her habbaþ blisse
þær ic dauides horn deorne bringe forþ gelæde fægre gearuwe byrnende blacern bere for minum criste gecorenum þe ic hine cuþne wat
ic his feondas eac facne gegyrwe mid scame swiþust ofer hine scir cymeþ minra segnunga soþfæst blostma