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title: "Psalm 1 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/1/
description: "Psalm 1 in the CPDV, with the Latin Vulgate. Beatus vir. The happiness of the just and the evil state of the wicked."
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# Psalm 1

Psalm 1 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows has the same number, 1, in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 6 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Beatus vir. The happiness of the just and the evil state of the wicked.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 1 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Blessed is the man who has not followed the counsel of the impious, and has not remained in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the chair of pestilence.
2. But his will is with the law of the Lord, and he will meditate on his law, day and night.
3. And he will be like a tree that has been planted beside running waters, which will provide its fruit in its time, and its leaf will not fall away, and all things whatsoever that he does will prosper.
4. Not so the impious, not so. For they are like the dust that the wind casts along the face of the earth.
5. Therefore, the impious will not prevail again in judgment, nor sinners in the council of the just.
6. For the Lord knows the way of the just. And the path of the impious will pass away.

## Psalm 1 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum, et in via peccatorum non stetit, et in cathedra pestilentiæ non sedit;
2. sed in lege Domini voluntas ejus, et in lege ejus meditabitur die ac nocte.
3. Et erit tamquam lignum quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum, quod fructum suum dabit in tempore suo: et folium ejus non defluet; et omnia quæcumque faciet prosperabuntur.
4. Non sic impii, non sic; sed tamquam pulvis quem projicit ventus a facie terræ.
5. Ideo non resurgent impii in judicio, neque peccatores in concilio justorum:
6. quoniam novit Dominus viam justorum, et iter impiorum peribit.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 1330: What is This Sacrament Called? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “A psalm is the calm of souls, the arbiter of peace; it stills the stormy waves of thought.” — St. Basil the Great, Homily on Psalm 1, c. 370 (On this verse: verse 1)
- “Read often and learn as much as you can. Let sleep find you holding your Bible, and when your head nods let it be resting on the sacred page.” — St. Jerome, Letter 22 to Eustochium, 384 (On this theme: verse 2)
- “I have spent my whole life in this monastery, applying myself entirely to the study of the Scriptures.” — St. Bede the Venerable, Ecclesiastical History, V.24, 731 (On this theme: verse 2)

## Read at Mass (US)

- Mon, Nov 16, 2026: Monday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4, 6
- Fri, Dec 11, 2026: Friday of the Second Week of Advent — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6
- Thu, Feb 11, 2027: Thursday after Ash Wednesday — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6
- Thu, Feb 25, 2027: Thursday of the Second Week of Lent — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6

10 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Mass citations number the Psalms in the Hebrew way.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).