The Paris Psalter: Psalm 142
drihten min gebed
deore gehyre
and mid earum onfoh
ungemetum georne
mine halsunge
heald me syþþan
on þinre soþfæstnesse
and me on soþe gehyr
ne ga þu mid þinum esne
in to dome
forþon on þinre gesihþe ne biþ
soþfæst ænig
þe on þisse foldan
feorhlif bereþ
forþon mine sawle
swiþe feondas
ealle ehtan
ungemete strange
habbaþ me gehnæged
heanne to eorþan
and min lif swylce
gelytlad is
hi me on digle
deorce stowe
settan sarlice
samed anlice
swa þu worulddeade
wrige mid foldan
is me ænge gast
innan hreþres
and me is heorte on
hearde gedrefed
þonne ic on mode
gemyndgade
hu me ærran dagas
oft alumpan
metegade on mode
ealle þine mæran weorc
and ymbe þine handgeweorc
hogode georne
þonne ic mine handa to þe
holde þenede
and mine sawle
sette mid mode
swa eorþan biþ
ansyn wæteres
gehyr me hrædlice
hæl me syþþan
nu me deope is
drihten leofa
min sylfes gast
swær geworden
ne awend fram me
wuldres ealdur
þine ansyne
wese ic earmum gelic
þe on sweartne grund
syþþan astigaþ
gedo þæt ic gehyre
holde on morgene
þine mildheortnesse
mihtig drihten
forþon ic hycge to þe
helpe gelyfe
do me wegas wise
þæt ic wite gearwe
on hwylcne ic gange
gleawe mode
nu ic to drihtnes
dome wille
mine sawle
settan geornast
afyrr me frea drihten
feondum minum
nu ic helpe to þe
holde gelyfe
lær me hu ic þinne willan
wyrce and fremme
forþon þu min god eart
þu me god dydest
me þin se goda gast
gleawe lædde
þæt ic on rihtne weg
reþne ferde
for naman þines
neodweorþunge
drihten usser
do me halne
þæt ic on þinum rihte
rædfæst lifige
and þu of costunge
clæne alæddest
sawle mine
þær heo syþþan forþ
on þinre mildheortnesse
mote wunian
and þu mine feondas
fæcne todrife
and eac forleose
laþra gehwylcne
þe mine sawle
synne ætfæsten
forþon ic þin esne eom
agen symble