The Paris Psalter: Psalm 84 University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/A.5.5.84 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 84
þu bletsadest bliþe drihten foldan fæle and afyrdest eac of iacobe þa graman hæftned
unriht þu forlete eallum þinum folce and heora fyrene fæste hæle
eall þu þin yrre eþre gedydest na þu ure gyltas egsan gewræce
gehweorf us hraþe hælend drihten and þin yrre fram us eac oncyrre þæt þu us ne weorþe wraþ on mode
ne wrec þu þin yrre wraþe mode of cynne on cynn and on cneorisse gecyr us georne to þe crist ælmihtig and þin folc on þe gefeo swiþe
æteow us milde mod mihtig drihten and us þine hæle syle her to genihte
syþþan ic gehyre hwæt me halig god on minum modsefan mælan wille sybbe he his folces seceþ geornast and swiþust to þam þe hine seceaþ
hwæþere he is mid soþe forswiþe neah þam þe egsan his elne healdaþ hæleþ mid hyldo and him her syleþ ure eorþan æþele wuldor
him gangaþ ongean gleawe cræftas mildheortnesse mod and mihte soþ and hine sybbe lufu swylce clyppeþ
up of eorþan cwom æþelast soþa beseah soþfæstnes samod of heofenum
syleþ us fremsum god fægere drihten þonne us eorþe syleþ æþele wæstmas
hine soþfæstnes symble foregangeþ and on weg setteþ wise gangas