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# Psalm 105 (106)

Psalm 105 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 106 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 48 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Confitemini Domino. A confession of the manifold sins and ingratitudes of the Israelites. Alleluia.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 105 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Alleluia. Confess to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy is with every generation.
2. Who will declare the powers of the Lord? Who make a hearing for all his praises?
3. Blessed are those who keep judgment and who do justice at all times.
4. Remember us, O Lord, with good will for your people. Visit us with your salvation,
5. so that we may see the goodness of your elect, so that we may rejoice in the joy of your nation, so that you may be praised along with your inheritance.
6. We have sinned, as have our fathers. We have acted unjustly; we have wrought iniquity.
7. Our fathers did not understand your miracles in Egypt. They did not remember the multitude of your mercies. And they provoked you, while going up to the sea, even the Red Sea.
8. And he saved them for the sake of his name, so that he might make known his power.
9. And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up. And he led them into the abyss, as if into a desert.
10. And he saved them from the hand of those who hated them. And he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
11. And the water covered those who troubled them. Not one of them remained.
12. And they believed his words, and they sang his praises.
13. As soon as they had finished, they forgot his works, and they would not endure his counsel.
14. And they coveted their desire in the desert, and they tempted God in a waterless place.
15. And he granted to them their request, and he sent abundance into their souls.
16. And they provoked Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.
17. The earth opened and swallowed Dathan, and it covered the congregation of Abiram.
18. And a fire broke out in their congregation. A flame burned up the sinners.
19. And they fashioned a calf at Horeb, and they adored a graven image.
20. And they exchanged their glory for the likeness of a calf that eats hay.
21. They forgot God, who saved them, who did great things in Egypt:
22. miracles in the land of Ham, terrible things at the Red Sea.
23. And he said that he would destroy them, yet Moses, his elect, stood firm before him in the breach, in order to avert his wrath, lest he destroy them.
24. And they held the desirable land to be nothing. They did not trust in his word.
25. And they murmured in their tabernacles. They did not heed the voice of the Lord.
26. And he lifted up his hand over them, in order to prostrate them in the desert,
27. and in order to cast their offspring among the nations, and to scatter them among the regions.
28. And they were initiated into Baal of Peor, and they ate the sacrifices of the dead.
29. And they provoked him with their inventions, and ruination was multiplied in them.
30. Then Phinehas stood up and placated him: and so the violent disturbance ceased.
31. And it was reputed to him unto justice, from generation to generation, even forever.
32. And they provoked him at the Waters of Contradiction, and Moses was afflicted because of them,
33. for they exasperated his spirit. And so he divided them with his lips.
34. They did not destroy the nations, about which the Lord had spoken to them.
35. And they were mixed among the Gentiles. And they learned their works,
36. and they served their graven images, and it became a scandal to them.
37. And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
38. And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of their daughters, which they sacrificed to the graven images of Canaan. And the land was infected with bloodshed,
39. and was contaminated with their works. And they fornicated according to their own inventions.
40. And the Lord became furiously angry with his people, and he abhorred his inheritance.
41. And he delivered them into the hands of the nations. And those who hated them became rulers over them.
42. And their enemies afflicted them, and they were humbled under their hands.
43. Many times, he delivered them. Yet they provoked him with their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquities.
44. And he saw that they were in tribulation, and he heard their prayer.
45. And he was mindful of his covenant, and he repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
46. And he provided for them with mercies, in the sight of all those who had seized them.
47. Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from the nations, so that we may confess your holy name and glory in your praise.
48. Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, from ages past, even to all ages. And let all the people say: Amen. Amen.

## Psalm 105 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Alleluja. Confitemini Domino, quoniam bonus, quoniam in sæculum misericordia ejus.
2. Quis loquetur potentias Domini; auditas faciet omnes laudes ejus?
3. Beati qui custodiunt judicium, et faciunt justitiam in omni tempore.
4. Memento nostri, Domine, in beneplacito populi tui; visita nos in salutari tuo:
5. ad videndum in bonitate electorum tuorum; ad lætandum in lætitia gentis tuæ: ut lauderis cum hæreditate tua.
6. Peccavimus cum patribus nostris: injuste egimus; iniquitatem fecimus.
7. Patres nostri in Ægypto non intellexerunt mirabilia tua; non fuerunt memores multitudinis misericordiæ tuæ. Et irritaverunt ascendentes in mare, mare Rubrum;
8. et salvavit eos propter nomen suum, ut notam faceret potentiam suam.
9. Et increpuit mare Rubrum et exsiccatum est, et deduxit eos in abyssis sicut in deserto.
10. Et salvavit eos de manu odientium, et redemit eos de manu inimici.
11. Et operuit aqua tribulantes eos; unus ex eis non remansit.
12. Et crediderunt verbis ejus, et laudaverunt laudem ejus.
13. Cito fecerunt; obliti sunt operum ejus: et non sustinuerunt consilium ejus.
14. Et concupierunt concupiscentiam in deserto, et tentaverunt Deum in inaquoso.
15. Et dedit eis petitionem ipsorum, et misit saturitatem in animas eorum.
16. Et irritaverunt Moysen in castris; Aaron, sanctum Domini.
17. Aperta est terra, et deglutivit Dathan, et operuit super congregationem Abiron.
18. Et exarsit ignis in synagoga eorum: flamma combussit peccatores.
19. Et fecerunt vitulum in Horeb, et adoraverunt sculptile.
20. Et mutaverunt gloriam suam in similitudinem vituli comedentis fœnum.
21. Obliti sunt Deum qui salvavit eos; qui fecit magnalia in Ægypto,
22. mirabilia in terra Cham, terribilia in mari Rubro.
23. Et dixit ut disperderet eos, si non Moyses, electus ejus, stetisset in confractione in conspectu ejus, ut averteret iram ejus, ne disperderet eos.
24. Et pro nihilo habuerunt terram desiderabilem; non crediderunt verbo ejus.
25. Et murmuraverunt in tabernaculis suis; non exaudierunt vocem Domini.
26. Et elevavit manum suam super eos ut prosterneret eos in deserto:
27. et ut dejiceret semen eorum in nationibus, et dispergeret eos in regionibus.
28. Et initiati sunt Beelphegor, et comederunt sacrificia mortuorum.
29. Et irritaverunt eum in adinventionibus suis, et multiplicata est in eis ruina.
30. Et stetit Phinees, et placavit, et cessavit quassatio.
31. Et reputatum est ei in justitiam, in generationem et generationem usque in sempiternum.
32. Et irritaverunt eum ad aquas contradictionis, et vexatus est Moyses propter eos:
33. quia exacerbaverunt spiritum ejus, et distinxit in labiis suis.
34. Non disperdiderunt gentes quas dixit Dominus illis:
35. et commisti sunt inter gentes, et didicerunt opera eorum;
36. et servierunt sculptilibus eorum, et factum est illis in scandalum.
37. Et immolaverunt filios suos et filias suas dæmoniis.
38. Et effuderunt sanguinem innocentem, sanguinem filiorum suorum et filiarum suarum, quas sacrificaverunt sculptilibus Chanaan. Et infecta est terra in sanguinibus,
39. et contaminata est in operibus eorum: et fornicati sunt in adinventionibus suis.
40. Et iratus est furore Dominus in populum suum, et abominatus est hæreditatem suam.
41. Et tradidit eos in manus gentium; et dominati sunt eorum qui oderunt eos.
42. Et tribulaverunt eos inimici eorum, et humiliati sunt sub manibus eorum;
43. sæpe liberavit eos. Ipsi autem exacerbaverunt eum in consilio suo, et humiliati sunt in iniquitatibus suis.
44. Et vidit cum tribularentur, et audivit orationem eorum.
45. Et memor fuit testamenti sui, et pœnituit eum secundum multitudinem misericordiæ suæ:
46. et dedit eos in misericordias, in conspectu omnium qui ceperant eos.
47. Salvos nos fac, Domine Deus noster, et congrega nos de nationibus: ut confiteamur nomini sancto tuo, et gloriemur in laude tua.
48. Benedictus Dominus Deus Israël, a sæculo et usque in sæculum; et dicet omnis populus: Fiat, fiat.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2577: In the Old Testament ([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 28: “Initiated” … That is, they dedicated, or consecrated themselves to the idol of the Moabites and Madianites, called Beelphegor, or Baal-Peor. Num. 25. 3.-- Ibid.
- Verse 28: “The dead” … Viz., idols without life.
- Verse 33: Moses, by occasion of the people's rebellion and incredulity, was guilty of distinguishing with his lips; when, instead of speaking to the rock, as God had commanded, he said to the people, with a certain hesitation in his faith, Hear ye, rebellious and incredulous: Can we from this rock bring out water for you? Num. 20. 10.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Thu, Mar 11, 2027: Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 106:19-20, 21-22, 23
- Fri, Jul 2, 2027 (computed): Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 106:1b-2, 3-4a, 4b-5
- Mon, Jul 26, 2027 (computed): Sts. Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 106:19-20, 21-22, 23
- Wed, Aug 4, 2027 (computed): St. John Vianney, Priest — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 106:6-7ab, 13-14, 21-22, 23

4 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). 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).