The Paris Psalter: Psalm 145 University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/A.5.5.145 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 145
herige min sawl hælend drihten and ic on minum life lustum drihten herige haligne and holdum gode sealmas singe þenden ic sylf lifige
nelle ge on ealdurmenn ane getreowian ne on manna bearn nis þær mycel hælu
heora gast gangeþ gearwe onwendeþ on þa eorþan þe hi of comon of þam sylfan dæge syþþan forweorþaþ ealle þa geþohtas þe hi þohtan ær
þonne biþ eadig þe him æror wæs iacobes god geara fultumiend and ær his hiht on god hæfde fæste
se þe heofon worhte hrusan swylce and sidne sæ samed ætgædere and ealle þa þe him on ahwær syndon
he his soþfæst word swylce gehealdeþ and on worulde his wise domas deþ gedefe þe her deorce ær teonan manige torne geþoledan syleþ mete swylce þe her murcne ær hungur heaþugrimne heardne geþoledan
wreceþ to ræde rice drihten þara manna bearn þe ær man gebræc swylce þa gefetredan fægre drihten lungre alyseþ and him lif geofeþ and blinde eac bealde drihten on heora eagum eft onleohteþ soþfæste drihten swylce lufade
þa elþeodigan ealle drihten lustum healdeþ and lif geofeþ weodewum wencelum he hiom wel onfehþ fyrenfulra weg frecne toweorpeþ
rixaþ mid ræde rice drihten on ecnesse awa to feore and þin sione god symble to worulde