Sealm 103
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Sealm 102
1Bletsa mine sawle bliðe Drihten
and eall min inneran his þæne ecean naman.
2Bletsige mine sawle bealde Dryhten
ne wylt þu ofergeottul æfre weorðan
ealra gōda þe he þe ær dyde.
3He þinum māndædum miltsade eallum
and þine adle ealle gehælde.
4He alysde þin lif leof of forwyrde,
5fylde þinne willan fægere mid gōde.
He þe gesigefæste soðre miltse
and ðe mildheorte mode getrymede;
eart þu edneowe earne gelicast
on geogoðe nu gleawe geworden.
6Hafast þu milde mod, mihta strange,
Drihten, domas eallum þe deope her
and ful treaflice teonan þoliað.
7He his wegas dyde wise and cuðe
Moyse þam mæran on mænige tid,
swylce his willan eac werum Israhela.
8Mildheort þu eart and mihtig, mode geþyldig,
ece Drihten, swa þu a wære;
is þin milde mod mannum cyðed.
9Nelle þu oð ende yrre habban,
ne on ecnesse ðe awa belgan.
10Na þu be gewyrhtum, wealdend, urum
wommum wyrhtum woldest us don,
ne æfter urum unryhte ahwær gyldan.
11For ðon þu æfter heahweorce heofenes þines
mildheortnysse, mihtig Drihten,
lustum cyðdest, þam þe lufedan þe.
12Swa þas foldan fæðme bewindeð
þes eastrodor and æfter west,
he betweonan þam teonan and unriht
us fram afyrde æghwær symble.
13Swa fæder ðenceð fægere his bearnum
milde weorðan, swa us mihtig god,
þam þe hine lufiað, liðe weorðeð,
for ðan he ealle can ure þearfe.
14Gemune, mihtig god, þæt we synt moldan and dust;
15beoð mannes dagas mawenum hege
æghwær anlice, eorðan blostman,
swa his lifdagas læne syndan.
16Þonne he gast ofgifeð, syþþan hine gærsbedd sceal
wunian widefyrh, ne him man syððan wat
ahwær elles ænige stowe.
17Þin mildheortnes, mihtig Drihten,
þurh ealra worulda woruld wislic standeð,
deorust and gedefust ofer ealle þa þe ondrædað him.
18Swa his soðfæstnyss swylce standeð
ofer þara bearna bearn þe his bebodu healdað,
and þæs gemynde mycle habbað,
þæt heo his wisfæst word wynnum efnan.
19On heofenhame halig Drihten
his heahsetl hror timbrade,
þanon he eorðricum eallum wealdeð.
20Ealle his englas ecne Drihten
bletsian bealde, heora bliðne frean,
mægyn and mihta, þa his mære word
habbað and healdað and hyge fremmað.
21Bletsian Drihten eall his bearna mægen
and his ðegna ðreat, þe þæt þence nu,
þæt hi his willan wyrcean georne.
22Eall his agen geweorc ecne Drihten
on his agenum stede eac bletsige,
þær him his egsa, anweald, standeð;
bletsige min sawl bliðe Drihten.
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The first 50 psalms are credited to King Alfred the Great and were written in c.890-899 AD, and the last 100 psalms were translated c.900-950 AD by an unknown poet.
