The Paris Psalter: Psalm 139 University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/A.5.5.139 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 139
genere me wiþ niþe on naman þinum fram yfelum menn ece drihten and fram þam were þe wom fremme
þa ealne dæg inwit and facen hycgeaþ on heortan þurh hearme geþoht hi þæt to gefeohte georne gefremed habbaþ
and heora tungan torncwidum neode serwaþ swa oft nædran doþ and him aspidas ætrene wyrmas under welerum is gewunad fæste
geheald þu me drihten wiþ heteniþas and wiþ firenfulles folmum swylce and fram þam mannum þe man fremmen alys þu me lungre lifes ealdur
þa on hyge þohtan þæt hi ahyltan me and minne gang georne swylce forhyddan oferhygde me inwitgyrene wraþan wealsadan wundnum rapum woldan mine fotas gefæstnian settan me swyce þær ic siþade
ic þa to drihtne cwæþ þu me eart dyre god gehyr min gebed halig drihten nu ic stefne to þe styrme hlude
drihten drihten þu eart gedefe mægen hælo minre and þu min heafod scealt on gefeohtdæge feondum awergean
ne alyf þu me æfre ofer lust minne on fyrenfulra fæcne geþancas þa wiþerwearde me wraþe hycgeaþ ne forlæt þu me on lifdagum þy læs hi ahafene ofer me hwile weorþen
him ymb heafod hefegast gewinna þæt hi mid welerum geworht habbaþ him þæt ilce sceal on gesittan
eac hi feallaþ on fyres glede and þu hi mid fyre facnes gehnegest þæt hi þam yrmþum a ne wiþstanden
se getynga wer on teosuspræce ne biþ se ofer eorþan gereaht ahwær unsoþfæstne wer yfel gecnysseþ oþþe he on eorþan eall forweorþeþ
ic þæt gearuwe ongeat þæt gode deþ drihten domas þe on dagum þyssum wædlum weorþaþ wreceþ þearfendra
soþ is hwæþere soþfæste nu þinne naman willaþ þuruh neod herigean scylan eard niman on þinre ansyne þa mid ræde her rihte lifigeaþ