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