The Paris Psalter: Psalm 58
ahrede me halig god
hefiges niþes
feonda minra
þe me feohtaþ to
alys me fram laþum
þe me lungre on
risan willaþ
nymþe þu me ræd geofe
genere me fram niþe
nahtfremmendra
þe her unrihtes
ealle wyrceaþ
and me wiþ blodhreowes weres
bealuwe gehæle
þi nu mine sawle
swiþe bysige
feondas mine
fæcne ofþryhtun
and me strange eac
stundum ongunnon
ne me unrihtes on
awiht wistan
ne ic firene eac
fremde drihtne
gif ic on unriht bearn
ic þæs eft geswac
on minne geanryne
aris þu drihten nu
and þu sylfa gesyhst
þæt ic swa dyde
þu eart mægena god
mihtig drihten
and israela god
æghwær æt þearfe
beheald holdlice
hu þu hraþe wylle
geneosian
niþa bearna
ealra þeoda
æghwær landes
ne þu hweþere on mode
milde weorþest
eallum þe unriht
elne wyrceaþ
hi æt æfene eft
in gecyrraþ
þonne hy heardne
hungor þoliaþ
swa hundas ymbgaþ
hwommas ceastre
efne hi habbaþ on muþe
milde spræce
is him on welerum
wraþ sweord and scearp
þonne gehyreþ hwylc
hwæt hyra hyge seceþ
and þu hi drihten dest
deope to bysmre
nafast þu for awiht
ealle þeoda
ic mine strengþe on þe
strange gehealde
forþon þu me god eart
geara andfencgea
and mildheortnes
mines drihtnes
me fægere becom
þær me wæs freondes þearf
min se goda god ætyw me
þin agen good
for minum feondum
þe me feale syndun
ne do hy to deadan
þy læs hi dollice
þinre æ geban
anforlæton
ac þu hi wide todrif
þurh þines wordes mægen
and hi wraþe toweorp
wealdend min drihten
ys hyra muþes scyld
manworda feala
þa hi mid welerum
wraþe aspræcan
wærun hi on oferhygde
ealle gescende
þa hi on lige
lange feredon
forþon hi on ende
yrre forgripeþ
and hi syþþan ne beoþ
samod ætgædere
syþþan hi wisslice witon
þætte wealdeþ god
ofer middangeard
manna cynnes
and ealra eac
eorþan gemæru
hi on æfenne
eft gecyrraþ
and heardne eac
hungor þoliaþ
swa hundas ymbgaþ
hwommas ceastre
efne hi to æte
ut gewitaþ
þær hi towrecene
wide hweorfaþ
gif hi fulle ne beoþ
fela gnorniaþ
ic þonne þine strengþu
stundum singe
and þin milde mod
morgena gehwylce
forþon þu min andfengea
æghwær wære
and ic helpe æt þe
hæfde symble
þonne me costunge
cnysedon geneahhige
þu eart fultum min
ic þe fela singe
forþon þu me god eart
geara andfengea
and mildheortnes
mihtig drihten