The Paris Psalter: Psalm 78 University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/A.5.5.78 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 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