The Paris Psalter: Psalm 75 University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/A.5.5.75 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 75
god wæs geara cuþ mid iudeum and his æþele nama mid israelum
is on sibbe his stow soþe behealden and he on sione swylce eardaþ
þær he hornbogan hearde gebendeþ and sweord and sceld æt gescotfeohta
þu wræclice wundrum onlyhtest fram þam eceum hider æþelum beorgum ealle synt yrre þa þe unwise heora heortan hige healdaþ mid dysige hi slæp hiora swæfun unmurne ne þær wiht fundan þa þe welan sohtan þæs þe hi on handum hæfdan godes
for þinre þrea þriste ongunnon iacobes god georne slepan þa þe on horsum hwilon wæron is þin egesa mycel hwylc mæg æfre þe gif þu yrre byst ahwær wiþstandan
þonne þu of heofenum dom hider on eorþan mid gescote sendest þonne hio swyþe beofaþ þonne to dome drihten ariseþ þæt he on eorþan do ealle hale þe he mildheorte meteþ and findeþ
forþon þe mannes geþoht mægen andetteþ and þonne þa lafe lustum þence þæt ic þe symbeldæg sette and gyrwe
gehataþ nu drihtne and him hraþe gyldaþ eowrum þam godan gode georne ealle þe on ymbhwyrfte ahwær syndan him gyfe bringen gode and clæne
to þam egsan sceal æghwylc habban þe wera gastum wealdeþ and healdeþ eorþcynincgum se ege standeþ