The Paris Psalter: Psalm 138
þu min costadest
cynnum drihten
and me ongeate
gleawe mode
þu min setl
swylce oncneowe
and minne ærist
æfter gecyþdest
and mine geþohtas eac
þriste oncneowe
feorran ongeate
fore mine
and mine gangas
gearwe atreddest
and ealle mine wegas
wel foresawe
forþan me inwit næs
ahwær on tungan
efne þu drihten
eall oncneowe
þa ærestan
eac þa nehstan
þu me gehiwadest
handa þinre
me ofer heafod
holde gesettest
wundorlic is geworden
þin wisdom eall
se is beutan me
eac gestrangod
ne mæg ic him on neode
a neah cuman
hwider mæg ic fram þinum gaste
gangan ahwær
oþþe þinne andwlitan befleon
eorþan dæles
gif ic on heofenas up
hea astige
þu me þær on efn
andweard sittest
gif ic on helle gedo
hwyrft ænigne
þu me æt byst
efne rihte
gif ic mine fiþeru gefo
fleoge ær leohte
oþþæt ic beutan wese
eallum sæwum
hwæt me þin hand þyder
ofer holma begang
lædeþ lustum
and me lungre eft
þin seo swiþre
þær gehendeþ
ic on mode cwæþ
minum swylce
wen is þæt me þystru
þearle forgripen
and me on nihte
neode onlihte
þæt ic minum bleom
bregde neahhige
ne beoþ þeostru deorc
butan þinre miht
þurh þa onlihtest niht
þæt heo byþ dæge gelic
swa þragum gæþ
þeostru wiþ leohte
forþon þu hi settest
swylce drihten
canst mine ædre
ealle gearuwe
onfenge me fægere
swa ic furþum wæs
of modur hrife
minre acenned
ic þe andette
ece drihten
forþon þu mid egesan eart
eall gewuldrad
and þine weorc wæron
wræclice swyþe
þa min saul oncneow
sona georne
nis min ban wiþ þe
deope behyded
þæt þu wislice
worhtest on diglum
þeh min lichama
lytle þrage
on niþerdælum
eorþan wunige
eagan þine gesawon
þæt ic ealles wæs
unfrom on ferhþe
eall þæt forþ heonan
on þinum wisbocum
awriten standeþ
dagas syndon trymede
swa hi drihten gesceop
ne mæg ænig on þam
awa lifigean
me synd arwyrþe
ealle swiþe
þe þine frynd wærun
fæste drihten
is heora ealdordom
ungemete swiþe
on cneorissum
cuþ gestrangod
gif ic hi recene nu
riman onginne
hi beoþ ofer sandcorn
sniome manige
syþþan ic arise
and recene nu gyt
mid þe sylfum eom
gif þu syþþan wylt
þa firenfullan
fyllan mid deaþe
blodhreowe weras
ge bebugaþ me
þe þæt on geþohtum
þenceaþ cweþende
wutun þurh idel searu
ealle tiligean
þæt we heora burh
tobrecan moton
ealle þa þe feodan
þurh facen god
ic hi feode nu
fæste mid niþe
and ofer þine feondas beo
facne gebolgen
swa ic hi mid rihte
recene feoge
forþon hi me feondas
fæcne wurdan
costa min god
swa hit cyn wese
and minre heortan gehygd
her gesceawa
þone fælan geþanc
frine me syþþan
and mine stige ongit
gestaþelode
and þu sylfa geseoh
gif ic on swiculne weg
oþþe on unrihte
ahwær eode
gelæd me þonne
lifes ealdor
þæt ic on ecne weg
æghwær gange