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title: "Psalm 103 (104) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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# Psalm 103 (104)

Psalm 103 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 104 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 35 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Benedic, anima. God is to be praised for his mighty works, and wonderful providence.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 103 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. To David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are exceedingly great. You have clothed yourself with confession and beauty;
2. you are dressed with light like a garment, while you stretch out heaven like a tent.
3. You cover its heights with water. You set the clouds as your stairs. You walk upon the wings of the winds.
4. You make your Angels a breath of life, and your ministers a burning fire.
5. You founded the earth upon its stable base. It will not be bent from age to age.
6. The abyss, like a garment, is its clothing. The waters will remain standing above the mountains.
7. At your rebuke, they will flee. At the voice of your thunder, they will dread.
8. The mountains ascend, and the plains descend, to the place which you have founded for them.
9. You have set a limit that they will not cross. And they will not return to cover the earth.
10. You spring forth fountains in steep valleys. The waters will cross through the midst of the mountains.
11. All the wild beasts of the field will drink. The wild donkeys will anticipate in their thirst.
12. Above them, the flying things of the air will dwell. From the midst of the rocks, they will utter voices.
13. You irrigate the mountains from your heights. The earth will be satiated from the fruit of your works,
14. producing grass for cattle and herbs for the service of men. So may you draw bread from the earth,
15. and wine, in order to cheer the heart of man. Then he may gladden his face with oil, and bread will confirm the heart of man.
16. The trees of the field will be saturated, along with the cedars of Lebanon, which he planted.
17. There, the sparrows will make their nests. The leader of them is the house of the heron.
18. The heights of the hills are for the deer; the rock is a refuge for the hedgehog.
19. He has made the moon for seasons; the sun knows its setting.
20. You appointed darkness, and it has become night; all the beasts of the forest will cross through it.
21. The young lions will roar, while searching for and seizing their meal from God.
22. The sun arose, and they were gathered together; and in their dens, they will lie down together.
23. Man will go forth to his work and to his activities, until the evening.
24. How great are your works, O Lord! You have made all things in wisdom. The earth has been filled with your possessions.
25. This sea is great and its hands are spacious. There are creeping things without number: the small animals with the great.
26. There, the ships will pass by this sea-serpent that you have formed to mock them.
27. All these expect you to give them food in due time.
28. What you give to them, they will gather. When you open your hand, they will all be filled with goodness.
29. But if you turn your face away, they will be disturbed. You will take away their breath, and they will fail, and they will return to their dust.
30. You will send forth your Spirit, and they will be created. And you will renew the face of the earth.
31. May the glory of the Lord be for all ages. The Lord will rejoice in his works.
32. He considers the earth, and he makes it tremble. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
33. I will sing to the Lord with my life. I will sing psalms to my God, as long as I am.
34. May my speech be pleasing to him. Truly, I will take delight in the Lord.
35. Let sinners fade away from the earth, along with the unjust, so that they may not be. Bless the Lord, O my soul.

## Psalm 103 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Ipsi David. Benedic, anima mea, Domino: Domine Deus meus, magnificatus es vehementer. Confessionem et decorem induisti,
2. amictus lumine sicut vestimento. Extendens cælum sicut pellem,
3. qui tegis aquis superiora ejus: qui ponis nubem ascensum tuum; qui ambulas super pennas ventorum:
4. qui facis angelos tuos spiritus, et ministros tuos ignem urentem.
5. Qui fundasti terram super stabilitatem suam: non inclinabitur in sæculum sæculi.
6. Abyssus sicut vestimentum amictus ejus; super montes stabunt aquæ.
7. Ab increpatione tua fugient; a voce tonitrui tui formidabunt.
8. Ascendunt montes, et descendunt campi, in locum quem fundasti eis.
9. Terminum posuisti quem non transgredientur, neque convertentur operire terram.
10. Qui emittis fontes in convallibus; inter medium montium pertransibunt aquæ.
11. Potabunt omnes bestiæ agri; expectabunt onagri in siti sua.
12. Super ea volucres cæli habitabunt; de medio petrarum dabunt voces.
13. Rigans montes de superioribus suis; de fructu operum tuorum satiabitur terra:
14. producens fœnum jumentis, et herbam servituti hominum, ut educas panem de terra,
15. et vinum lætificet cor hominis: ut exhilaret faciem in oleo, et panis cor hominis confirmet.
16. Saturabuntur ligna campi, et cedri Libani quas plantavit:
17. illic passeres nidificabunt: herodii domus dux est eorum.
18. Montes excelsi cervis; petra refugium herinaciis.
19. Fecit lunam in tempora; sol cognovit occasum suum.
20. Posuisti tenebras, et facta est nox; in ipsa pertransibunt omnes bestiæ silvæ:
21. catuli leonum rugientes ut rapiant, et quærant a Deo escam sibi.
22. Ortus est sol, et congregati sunt, et in cubilibus suis collocabuntur.
23. Exibit homo ad opus suum, et ad operationem suam usque ad vesperum.
24. Quam magnificata sunt opera tua, Domine! omnia in sapientia fecisti; impleta est terra possessione tua.
25. Hoc mare magnum et spatiosum manibus; illic reptilia quorum non est numerus: animalia pusilla cum magnis.
26. Illic naves pertransibunt; draco iste quem formasti ad illudendum ei.
27. Omnia a te expectant ut des illis escam in tempore.
28. Dante te illis, colligent; aperiente te manum tuam, omnia implebuntur bonitate.
29. Avertente autem te faciem, turbabuntur; auferes spiritum eorum, et deficient, et in pulverem suum revertentur.
30. Emittes spiritum tuum, et creabuntur, et renovabis faciem terræ.
31. Sit gloria Domini in sæculum; lætabitur Dominus in operibus suis.
32. Qui respicit terram, et facit eam tremere; qui tangit montes, et fumigant.
33. Cantabo Domino in vita mea; psallam Deo meo quamdiu sum.
34. Jucundum sit ei eloquium meum; ego vero delectabor in Domino.
35. Deficiant peccatores a terra, et iniqui, ita ut non sint. Benedic, anima mea, Domino.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 288: The Creator ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 102: Christ - The Unique Word of Sacred Scripture ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1333: The Eucharist in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1293: The Signs and the Rite of Confirmation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 295: The Creator ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2828: "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 292: The Creator ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 703: God's Spirit and Word in the Time of the Promises ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Read at Mass (US)

- Mon, Feb 8, 2027: Monday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 104:1-2a, 5-6, 10, 12, 24, 35c
- Sat, Mar 27, 2027: Holy Saturday — the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 104:1-2, 5-6, 10, 12, 13-14, 24, 35
- Sun, May 16, 2027: Pentecost Sunday — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34
- Sat, Apr 15, 2028 (computed): Holy Saturday — the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 104:1-2, 5-6, 10, 12, 13-14, 24, 35

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).