The Old Ways

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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 124

Old English originals (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records)

þa þe on drihten heora dædum getreowað, hi beoð on Sionbeorge swyþe gelice; ne mæg hine on ealdre ænig onhreran þe eardfæst byð on Hierusalem. Hi synd mundbeorgas micle ymbutan; haldeð heora ymbhwyrft ece drihten of ðisson nu awa to worulde. Næfre forlæteð lifes drihten firenfulra tan furðor gangan, þonne he soðfæstra settan wylle. Ne he soðfæste swylce læteð, þæt hi to unrihte ahwær willen handum ræcean, ac he him hraþe gyldeð; do þu, drihten, wel þam þe gedefe her

hiora heortan riht healdað mid gode. þa ðe gearwe beoð to gramum bendum, eft hi gelædeð ece drihten mid þæm þe unriht æghwær wyrceað; sibb si Israhelum symble ofer ealle.