Sealm 144
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Sealm 143
1Drihten is gebletsad, min se deora God,
þe mine handa to hilde teah
and mine fingras to gefeohtanne.
2He is mildheortnes min æt þearfe,
frið and fultum, fæst andfengea
and alysend is lifes mines.
Min þu mære eart mihtig scyldend;
ic hiht on ðe hæbbe fæste,
þæt þu me folc mænig fægere underþeoddest.
3Hwæt is se manna, mihtig Drihten,
þe þu him cuðlice cyþan woldest,
oððe mannes sunu, þæt hit gemet wære,
þæt þu him aht wið æfre hæfdest?
4Man byð merwe gesceaft, mihtum idel;
beoð his dagas swylce demde gelice,
swa þu on scimiendre sceade locige.
5Ahyld þine heofenas, halig Drihten,
onhrin þissum muntum, and hi hraðe reocað.
6Þine ligetta leohtað and beorhtað,
and þu hi toweorpest wide æfter;
synd þine strele strange swylce,
and ðu hi gedrefed hafast deope syþþan.
7Onsend þine handa of heanessum,
alys me and genere wið lagustreamum
manegum wæterum and wið manfolmum
fremdra bearna and frecenra.
8Þara muðas sprecað manidel word,
bið hyra seo swiðre symble abysgod,
þæt hi unrihtes elne tiligeað.
9Ic niwlice niwne cantic
þam godan gode gleawne singe
on psalterio, þe him swynsað oft
mid tyn strengum getogen hearpe,
on þære þe ic þe singe swiþe geneahhe.
10Þu healdest and sylest hælu cyningum;
þu alysdest eac leofne Dauid,
þinne agenne ombihtmæcg,
of þam awyrgedan wraðan sweorde.
11Alys me and oðlæd laþum wætrum,
manegum merestreamum, mærum handum,
þa me fremde bearn fæcne syndan.
Þara muðas sprecað manidel word,
byð hyra seo swiðre symble abysgad,
þæt hi unrihtes awa tiligean.
12Þara bearn swylce begað æþelum
settum beamum samed anlice,
standað on staðule stiðe wið geoguðe.
Wærun heora dohtru deore gesette
and ymb frætwum utan gegyrede,
efne anlicast æþelum temple.
13Heora frumwæstme fulle syndon,
þæt hi rumlice roccettað swiðe,
of þissan on þæt þonne wendað.
Heora sceap wærun swylce tydred
and on siðfatum swiþe genihtsum,
14heora oxan eac ungemete fætte.
Ne hreosað hi to hrusan hearde gebiged,
ne þær fernes is folca mænegum,
ne care micle cleopiað on worðum.
15Eadig bið þæt folc, oðre hatað,
þe him swa on foldan fægre limpeð;
eadig bið þæt folc þe ælmihtig wile
Drihten God dema weorðan.
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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.
