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title: "Psalm 101 (102) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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# Psalm 101 (102)

Psalm 101 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 102 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 29 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Domine, exaudi. A prayer for one in affliction: the fifth penitential psalm.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 101 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. The prayer of the pauper, when he was anxious, and so he poured out his petition in the sight of the Lord.
2. O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my outcry reach you.
3. Do not turn your face away from me. In whatever day that I am in trouble, incline your ear to me. In whatever day that I will call upon you, heed me quickly.
4. For my days have faded away like smoke, and my bones have dried out like firewood.
5. I have been cut down like hay, and my heart has withered, for I had forgotten to eat my bread.
6. Before the voice of my groaning, my bone has adhered to my flesh.
7. I have become like a pelican in solitude. I have become like a night raven in a house.
8. I have kept vigil, and I have become like a solitary sparrow on a roof.
9. All day long my enemies reproached me, and those who praised me swore oaths against me.
10. For I chewed on ashes like bread, and I mixed weeping into my drink.
11. By the face of your anger and indignation, you lifted me up and threw me down.
12. My days have declined like a shadow, and I have dried out like hay.
13. But you, O Lord, endure for eternity, and your memorial is from generation to generation.
14. You will rise up and take pity on Zion, for it is time for its mercy, for the time has come.
15. For its stones have pleased your servants, and they will take pity on its land.
16. And the Gentiles will fear your name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth your glory.
17. For the Lord has built up Zion, and he will be seen in his glory.
18. He has noticed the prayer of the humble, and he has not despised their petition.
19. Let these things be written in another generation, and the people who will be created will praise the Lord.
20. For he has gazed from his high sanctuary. From heaven, the Lord has beheld the earth.
21. So may he hear the groans of those in shackles, in order that he may release the sons of the slain.
22. So may they announce the name of the Lord in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem:
23. while the people convene, along with kings, in order that they may serve the Lord.
24. He responded to him in the way of his virtue: Declare to me the brevity of my days.
25. Do not call me back in the middle of my days: your years are from generation to generation.
26. In the beginning, O Lord, you founded the earth. And the heavens are the work of your hands.
27. They will perish, but you remain. And all will grow old like a garment. And, like a blanket, you will change them, and they will be changed.
28. Yet you are ever yourself, and your years will not decline.
29. The sons of your servants will live, and their offspring will be guided aright in every age.

## Psalm 101 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Oratio pauperis, cum anxius fuerit, et in conspectu Domini effuderit precem suam.
2. Domine, exaudi orationem meam, et clamor meus ad te veniat.
3. Non avertas faciem tuam a me: in quacumque die tribulor, inclina ad me aurem tuam; in quacumque die invocavero te, velociter exaudi me.
4. Quia defecerunt sicut fumus dies mei, et ossa mea sicut cremium aruerunt.
5. Percussus sum ut fœnum, et aruit cor meum, quia oblitus sum comedere panem meum.
6. A voce gemitus mei adhæsit os meum carni meæ.
7. Similis factus sum pellicano solitudinis; factus sum sicut nycticorax in domicilio.
8. Vigilavi, et factus sum sicut passer solitarius in tecto.
9. Tota die exprobrabant mihi inimici mei, et qui laudabant me adversum me jurabant:
10. quia cinerem tamquam panem manducabam, et potum meum cum fletu miscebam,
11. a facie iræ et indignationis tuæ: quia elevans allisisti me.
12. Dies mei sicut umbra declinaverunt, et ego sicut fœnum arui.
13. Tu autem, Domine, in æternum permanes, et memoriale tuum in generationem et generationem.
14. Tu exsurgens misereberis Sion, quia tempus miserendi ejus, quia venit tempus:
15. quoniam placuerunt servis tuis lapides ejus, et terræ ejus miserebuntur.
16. Et timebunt gentes nomen tuum, Domine, et omnes reges terræ gloriam tuam:
17. quia ædificavit Dominus Sion, et videbitur in gloria sua.
18. Respexit in orationem humilium et non sprevit precem eorum.
19. Scribantur hæc in generatione altera, et populus qui creabitur laudabit Dominum.
20. Quia prospexit de excelso sancto suo; Dominus de cælo in terram aspexit:
21. ut audiret gemitus compeditorum; ut solveret filios interemptorum:
22. ut annuntient in Sion nomen Domini, et laudem ejus in Jerusalem:
23. in conveniendo populos in unum, et reges, ut serviant Domino.
24. Respondit ei in via virtutis suæ: Paucitatem dierum meorum nuntia mihi:
25. ne revoces me in dimidio dierum meorum, in generationem et generationem anni tui.
26. Initio tu, Domine, terram fundasti, et opera manuum tuarum sunt cæli.
27. Ipsi peribunt, tu autem permanes; et omnes sicut vestimentum veterascent. Et sicut opertorium mutabis eos, et mutabuntur;
28. tu autem idem ipse es, et anni tui non deficient.
29. Filii servorum tuorum habitabunt, et semen eorum in sæculum dirigetur.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 212: I Believe in God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 7: “A pelican” … I am become through grief, like birds that affect solitude and darkness.
- Verse 24: That is, the people, mentioned in the foregoing verse, or the penitent, in whose person this psalm is delivered, answered the Lord in the way of his strength: that is, according to the best of his power and strength: or when he was in the flower of his age and strength: inquiring after the fewness of his days: to know if he should live long enough to see the happy restoration of Sion, etc.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, Mar 16, 2027: Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 102:2-3, 16-18, 19-21
- Mon, Sep 27, 2027 (computed): St. Vincent de Paul, Priest — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 102:16-18, 19-21, 29 and 22-23
- Tue, Apr 4, 2028 (computed): Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 102:2-3, 16-18, 19-21
- Thu, Jul 20, 2028 (computed): Thursday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 102:13-14ab and 15, 16-18, 19-21

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

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish. 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).