The Paris Psalter: Psalm 78
comon on þin yrfe
ece drihten
fremde þeode
þa þin fæle hus
ealh haligne
yfele gewemdan
settan hierusalem
samod anlicast
swa in æppelbearu
ane cytan
swylce hi setton
swylt þinum esnum
sealdon flæsc heora
fuglum to mose
haligra lic
hundum and deorum
hi þara bearna blod
on byrig leton
swa man gute wæter
ymb hierusalem
blodige lagan
nahtan byrgendas
we synd gewordene
wera cneorissum
eallum edwitstæf
ymbsittendum
þe us ahwær neah
nu-þa syndon
hu wilt þu wuldres god
wraþ yrre þin
on ende fram us
æfre oncyrran
is nu onbærned
biter þin yrre
on þinum folce
fyre hatre
ageot yrre þin
on þæt rice
and on cneowmagas
þe ne cunnan þe
ne naman þinne
neode cigeaþ
forþon hi iacob
geara ætan
and his wicstede
westan gelome
ne gemune þu to oft
mihta wealdend
ealdra unrihta
þe we oft fremedon
ac we hraþe begytan
hyldo þine
forþon we þearfende
þearle syndon
gefultuma us
frea ælmihtig
and alys us
lifigende god
weorþ urum synnum
sefte and milde
for naman þinum
neode and aare
þy læs æfre cweþan
oþre þeoda
hæþene herigeas
hwær com eower halig god
and us þæt on eagum
oftust worpen
þær manna wese
mæst ætgædere
wrec agen blod
esna þinra
þæt wæs sarlice agoten
þær þu gesawe to
geonge for þe
gnornendra care
þara þe on feterum
fæste wæran
æfter þines earmes
æþelum mægene
gegang þa deaþa bearn
þe hi demaþ nu
gyld nu gramhydigum
swa hi geearnedan
on sceat hiora
seofonfealde wrace
forþon hi edwit on þe
ealle hæfdon
we þin folc wærun
and fæle sceap
eowdes þines
we þe andettaþ
and þe to worulde
wuldur sæcgeaþ
and þe on worulda woruld
wordum heriaþ