Sealm 72
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Sealm 71
1Syle dom þinne, Drihten, kyninge;
suna cynincges syle, þæt he soð healde.
2Dem þu þin folc deore mid soðe,
heald þine þearfan holde mid dome.
3Onfon beorgas eac beorhtre sibbe
on þinum folce fægere blisse
and geswyru eac soþum dædum.
4On his soðfæstnesse swylce demeð
on folce fyrhte þearfan,
swylce he þearfena bearn þriste hæleð.
He þa hermcweðend hyneð and bygeð,
5se mid sunnan wunað swylce mid monan,
þurh ealra worulda woruld wunað him ece.
6He þonne astigeð, swa se stranga ren
fealleð on flys her, and swa fæger dropa
þe on þas eorðan upon dreopað.
7On his agenum dagum ypped weorðeþ
syb soðfæstnes swiðe genihtsum,
oþþæt byð ahafen hluttor mona.
8He þonne wealdeð wera cneorissum
be sæ tweonum, sidum ricum,
and fram streamracum styreð him eallum
oþ þysse eorðan utgemæru.
9Hine Sigelwearas seceað ealle
and his feondas foldan liccigeað.
10Cumað of Tharsis tires eadige
and of ealandum utan kynincgas;
þa him eardgyfu æðele bringað
of Arabia, eac of Saba;
ealle him leoda lacum cwemað.
11Hine weorðiað worulde kyningas
þa on eorðwege ealle syndan;
ealle þeoda hine weorðiað georne.
12For þon he alyseð lungre þearfan,
þæt him se welega ne mæg wiht onsittan,
and þæne wædlan, þe on worulde næfð
ahwær elles ænigne fultum.
13He helpeð þearfan, swylce eac wædlan,
and he þearfigendra sawla gehæleð.
14He of mānsceatte and of māne eac
sniome hiora sawle softe alysde;
ys his nama for him neode gebyrhted.
15He lyfað leodum, him byð lungre seald;
of Arabia gold eorlas lædað;
hine weorþiað wera cneoressa
and hine ealne dæg eac bletsiað.
16Þonne æðele getrym eorðan weardað,
bið se beorht ahafen ofer beorgas up;
ofer Libanum licgeað his yþa,
and on burgum beoþ blostmum fægere
swa on eorðan heg ute on lande.
17Þonne byð his nama ofer eall niða bearn
and to widan feore weorðeð gebletsod;
ær sunnan his nama soðfæst standeð,
byð his setl ær swylce þonne mona.
And him byð eorþan cynn eall gebletsad;
ealle hine þeoda þriste heriað.
18Wese Israhela ece Drihten
and hiora sylfra god symble gebletsad,
se þe wundor mycel wyrceð ana;
19si his mihta nama mode gebletsad
on ecnesse awa to worlde.
And þeos eorðe si eall gefylled,
þurh his wuldres miht. Wese swa, wese swa!
20 [not in MS]
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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.
