The Judgment Day II

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 306 sections

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Hwæt! Ic ana sæt innan bearwe,
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mid helme beþeht, holte tomiddes,
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þær þa wæterburnan swegdon and urnon
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on middan gehæge, eal swa ic secge.
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Eac þær wynwyrta weoxon and bleowon
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innon þam gemonge on ænlicum wonge,
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and þa wudubeamas wagedon and swegdon
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þurh winda gryre; wolcn wæs gehrered,
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and min earme mod eal wæs gedrefed.
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þa ic færinga, forht and unrot,
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þas unhyrlican fers onhefde mid sange,
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eall swylce þu cwæde, synna gemunde,
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lifes leahtra, and þa langan tid,
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þæs dimman cyme deaðes on eorðan.
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Ic ondræde me eac dom þone miclan
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for mandædum minum on eorðan,
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and þæt ece ic eac yrre ondræde me
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and synfulra gehwam æt sylfum gode,
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and hu mihtig frea eall manna cynn
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todæleð and todemeð þurh his dihlan miht.
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Ic gemunde eac mærðe drihtnes
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and þara haligra on heofonan rice,
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swylce earmsceapenra yfel and witu.
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Ic gemunde þis mid me, and ic mearn swiðe,
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and ic murcnigende cwæð, mode gedrefed:
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"Nu ic eow, æddran, ealle bidde
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þæt ge wylspringas wel ontynan,
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hate of hleorum, recene to tearum,
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þænne ic synful slea swiðe mid fyste,
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breost mine beate on gebedstowe,
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and minne lichaman lecge on eorðan
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and geearnade sar ealle ic gecige.
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Ic bidde eow benum nu ða
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þæt ge ne wandian wiht for tearum,
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ac dreorige hleor dreccað mid wope
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and sealtum dropum sona ofergeotaþ,
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and geopeniað man ecum drihtne.
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Ne þær owiht inne ne belife
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on heortscræfe heanra gylta,
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þæt hit ne sy dægcuð, þæt þæt dihle wæs,
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openum wordum eall abæred,
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breostes and tungan and flæsces swa some.
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ðis is an hæl earmre sauwle
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and þam sorgiendum selest hihta,
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þæt he wunda her wope gecyðe
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uplicum læce, se ana mæg
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aglidene mod gode gehælan
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and ræplingas recene onbindan,
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ne mid swiðran his swyþe nele brysan
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wanhydige mod wealdend engla,
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ne þone wlacan smocan waces fleaxes
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wyle waldend Crist wætere gedwæscan.
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Hu ne gesceop þe se scaþa scearplice bysne
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þe mid Criste wæs cwylmed on rode,
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hu micel forstent and hu mære is
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seo soðe hreow synna and gylta?
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Se sceaþa wæs on rode scyldig and manful,
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mid undædum eall gesymed;
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he drihtene swa þeah, deaðe gehende,
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his bena bebead breostgehigdum.
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He mid lyt wordum ac geleaffullum
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his hæle begeat and help recene,
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and in gefor þa ænlican geatu
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neorxnawonges mid nerigende.
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Ic acsige þe, la, earme geþanc,
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hwi latast þu swa lange, þæt þu ðe læce ne cyþst,
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oððe hwi swigast þu, synnigu tunge,
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nu þu forgifnesse hæfst gearugne timan,
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nu þe ælmihtig earum atihtum,
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heofonrices weard, gehyreð mid lustum?
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Ac se dæg cymeð ðonne demeð god
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eorðan ymbhwyrft; þu ana scealt
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gyldan scad wordum wið scyppend god,
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and þam rican frean riht agyldan.
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Ic lære þæt þu beo hrædra mid hreowlicum tearum,
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and þæt yrre forfoh eces deman.
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Hwæt ligst þu on horwe leahtrum afylled,
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flæsc, mid synnum? Hwi ne feormast þu
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mid teara gyte torne synne?
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Hwi ne bidst þu þe beþunga and plaster,
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lifes læcedomes æt lifes frean?
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Nu þu scealt greotan, tearas geotan,
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þa hwile tima sy and tid wopes;
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nu is halwende þæt man her wepe
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and dædbote do drihtne to willan.
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Glæd bið se godes sunu, gif þu gnorn þrowast
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and þe sylfum demst for synnum on eorðan,
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ne heofenes god henða and gyltas
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ofer ænne syþ wrecan wile ænigum men.
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Ne scealt þu forhyccan heaf and wopas
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and forgifnesse gearugne timan.
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Gemyne eac on mode, hu micel is þæt wite
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þe þara earmra byð for ærdædum,
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oþþe hu egeslice and hu andrysne
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heahþrymme cyningc her wile deman
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anra gehwylcum be ærdædum,
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oþþe hwylce forebeacn feran onginnað
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and Cristes cyme cyþað on eorðan.
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Eall eorðe bifað, eac swa þa duna
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dreosað and hreosað,

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