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Psalm 1

IOSEPH DICIT QUI CORPUS DOMINI SEPELIVIT

1(1)] Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum, et in via peccatorum non stetit, et in cathedra pestilentie non sedit; 1] Eadig byð se wer þe ne gæð on geþeaht unrihtwisra, ne on þam wege ne stent synfulra, ne on heora wolbærendum setle ne sitt;
2(2)] Sed in lege Domini fuit voluntas eius, et in lege eius meditabitur die ac nocte. 2] Ac his willa byð on godes æ, and ymb his æ he byð smeagende dæges and nihtes.
3(3)] Et erit tamquam lignum quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum, 3] Him byð swa þam treowe þe byð aplantod neah wætera rynum,
(4)] Quod fructum suum dabit in tempore suo, et folium eius non decidet, et omnia quecumque fecerit prosperabuntur. Þæt sylð his wæstmas to rihtre tide, and his leaf and his blæda ne fealwiað, ne ne seariað, swa byð þam men þe we ær ymbspræcon; eall him cymð to gode þæt þæt he deð.
4(5)] Non sic impii; non sic, sed tamquam pulvis quem proiciet ventus a facie terre. 4] Ac þa unrihtwisan ne beoð na swylce, ne him eac swa ne limpð, ac hi beoð duste gelicran þonne hit wind toblæwð.
5(6)] Ideo non resurgunt impii in iudicio, neque peccatores in consilio iustorum; 5] Þy ne arisað þa unrihtwisan on domes dæg, ne þa synfullan ne beoð on geþeahte þæra rihtwisena.
6(7)] Quoniam novit Dominus viam iustorum, et iter impiorum peribit. 6] Forþam God wat hwylcne weg þa rihtwisan geearnedon, ac þa unrihtwisan cumað to witum.

Notes to the Latin Text

1: Beatus / B ms.; abiit / habiit ms.
4: ventus / -os ms.; proiciet / -it Thorpe, Roman Psalter, -iet beta delta zeta pi.

Notes to the English Text

1: wolbærendum / -berendum Thorpe, Bright and Ramsay
6: hwylcne / hwylce ms. Thorpe

Notes to the Translation

6: hwylcne weg . . . geearnedon)

PL LXX 488: Ille qui Dominus est absolute, et cujus remunerare est, novit viam justorum, id est, approbat opera eorum.

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Psalm 1

IOSEPH DICIT QUI CORPUS DOMINI SEPELIVIT

1(1)] Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum, et in via peccatorum non stetit, et in cathedra pestilentie non sedit;

1] Eadig byð se wer þe ne gæð on geþeaht unrihtwisra, ne on þam wege ne stent synfulra, ne on heora wolbærendum setle ne sitt;

2(2)] Sed in lege Domini fuit voluntas eius, et in lege eius meditabitur die ac nocte.

2] Ac his willa byð on godes æ, and ymb his æ he byð smeagende dæges and nihtes.

3(3)] Et erit tamquam lignum quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum,

3] Him byð swa þam treowe þe byð aplantod neah wætera rynum,

(4)] Quod fructum suum dabit in tempore suo, et folium eius non decidet, et omnia quecumque fecerit prosperabuntur.

Þæt sylð his wæstmas to rihtre tide, and his leaf and his blæda ne fealwiað, ne ne seariað, swa byð þam men þe we ær ymbspræcon; eall him cymð to gode þæt þæt he deð.

4(5)] Non sic impii; non sic, sed tamquam pulvis quem proiciet ventus a facie terre.

4] Ac þa unrihtwisan ne beoð na swylce, ne him eac swa ne limpð, ac hi beoð duste gelicran þonne hit wind toblæwð.

5(6)] Ideo non resurgunt impii in iudicio, neque peccatores in consilio iustorum;

5] Þy ne arisað þa unrihtwisan on domes dæg, ne þa synfullan ne beoð on geþeahte þæra rihtwisena.

6(7)] Quoniam novit Dominus viam iustorum, et iter impiorum peribit.

6] Forþam God wat hwylcne weg þa rihtwisan geearnedon, ac þa unrihtwisan cumað to witum.

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