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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 130

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Nis min heorte wið þe      ahafen, drihten,
ne mine eagan wið þe      on oferhygde.
Ne ic on mægene      miclum gange
ne wundur ofer me      wuniað ænig.
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Ac ic mid eaðmedum      eall geþafige;
is min sawl on ðon      swyþe gefeonde.
Swa man æt meder      bið miclum feded,
swa þu minre sawle      symble gyldest.
Israhelas on drihten      a getreowigen
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of ðyssum nu      awa to worulde.