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Psalm 141
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Min stefn to þe styrmeð, drihten,and ic mid strangere stefne swylce
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Ic mine bene bealde swylceon his gesihðe symble ageote,
and mine earfeþu ealle full georne
fore him sylfum sæcge geneahhe,
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Gif mine grame þenceað gast teorian,and þu mine stige strange ongeate.
4
On þyssum grenan wege, þe ic gange on,me oferhydige æghwær setton
gearwe grine; geara ic sceawade,
geseah on þa swyðran, ne me sylfne þær
ænig mid gode ongitan wolde.
5
Ða me eac frecne fram fleam gedydan,næs þa þe mine sawle secean wolde,
þa ic to þe, drihten, digle cleopode
and sona cwæð: “Þu eart min se soða hiht;
eart þu on lifigendra lande swylce
se gedefa dæl, drihten, æghwær.”
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Beheald mine sawle, hæleþa wealdend,forþon ic geeadmeded eom ungemete swiðe.
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Alys me fram laþum; hi me lungre syntealle ofer me ungemete strange.
8
Alæd me of carcernes cluse swylcemine sawle, þæt ic syþþan forð
þinne naman mote neode sæcgean.
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Min soðfæste snotere bidað,oþþæt þu me edlean eft forgylde.
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