The Paris Psalter: Psalm 141
min stefn to þe
styrmeþ drihten
and ic mid strangere
stefne swylce
eam biddende
bealde drihten
ic mine bene
bealde swylce
on his gesihþe
symble ageote
and mine earfeþu
ealle full georne
fore him sylfum
sæcge geneahhe
gif mine grame þenceaþ
gast teorian
and þu mine stige
strange ongeate
on þyssum grenan wege
þe ic gange on
me oferhydige
æghwær setton
gearwe grine
geara ic sceawade
geseah on þa swyþran
ne me sylfne þær
ænig mid gode
ongitan wolde
þa me eac frecne fram
fleam gedydan
næs þa þe mine sawle
secean wolde
þa ic to þe drihten
digle cleopode
and sona cwæþ
þu eart min se soþa hiht
eart þu on lifigendra
lande swylce
se gedefa dæl
drihten æghwær
beheald mine sawle
hæleþa wealdend
forþon ic geeadmeded eom
ungemete swiþe
alys me fram laþum
hi me lungre synt
ealle ofer me
ungemete strange
alæd me of carcernes
cluse swylce
mine sawle
þæt ic syþþan forþ
þinne naman mote
neode sæcgean
min soþfæste
snotere bidaþ
oþþæt þu me edlean
eft forgylde