Sealm 58
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Sealm 57
1Gif ge soð sprecan symble wyllen,
demað manna bearn domum rihtum.
2Eft ge on heortan hogedon inwit,
worhton wraðe; forþan ðæs wite eft
on eowre handa hefige geeode.
3Ge firenfulle fremde wurdon,
syððan hi on worlde wæron acende
and heo on life lygeword spæcon.
4Yrre heom becume anlic nædran,
ða aspide ylde nemnað;
seo hi deafe deð, dytteð hyre earan,
5þæt heo nele gehyran heahgaldor sum
þæt snotre men singað wið attrum.
6God heora toðas grame gescæneð,
þa hi on muðe mycle habbað;
tolyseð leona mægen lungre Drihten.
7Ac hi forweorðan wætere gelicost,
þonne hit yrnende eorðe forswelgeð;
swa his bogan bendeð, oðþæt bitere eft
adl on seteð, swa his geearnuncg byð.
8Swa weax melteð, gif hit byð wearmum neah
fyre gefæstnad, swa heo feallað on þæt;
hi sunnan ne geseoð syððan æfre.
9Ær ðon eowre treowu telgum blowe,
wæstmum weaxe, ær him wol becimeð,
þæt heo beoð on yrre ealle forswelgene.
10Soðfæst blissað, þonne he sið ongan,
hu þa arleasan ealle forweorðað,
and his handa ðwehð on hæþenra
and þæra fyrenfulra fæcnum blode.
11And þonne man cweþeð on his modsefan:
þis is wæstm wises and goodes,
þe his soðfæst weorc symble læste;
hi on eorðan God ealle gedemeð.
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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.