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# Psalm 108 (109)

Psalm 108 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 109 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 31 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Deus, laudem meam. David in the person of Christ, prayeth against his persecutors; more especially the traitor Judas: foretelling and approving his just punishment for his obstinacy in sin and final impenitence.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 108 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Unto the end. A Psalm of David.
2. O God, do not be silent toward my praise, for the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the deceitful one have been opened against me.
3. They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues, and they have surrounded me with hateful words, and they fought against me over nothing.
4. Instead of choosing to act on my behalf, they detracted me. But I gave myself to prayer.
5. And they set evil against me, instead of good, and hatred, in return for my love.
6. Establish the sinner over him, and let the devil stand at his right hand.
7. When he is judged, may he go forth in condemnation, and may his prayer be counted as sin.
8. May his days be few, and let another take his episcopate.
9. May his sons be orphans, and his wife a widow.
10. May his sons be carried by those who walk unsteadily, and may they go begging. And may they be cast out of their dwelling places.
11. May the money lenders scrutinize all his belongings, and let foreigners plunder his labors.
12. May there be no one to assist him, nor anyone to be compassionate to his orphaned children.
13. May his posterity be in utter ruin. In one generation, may his name be wiped away.
14. May the iniquity of his fathers return in memory before the sight of the Lord, and do not let the sin of his mother be wiped away.
15. May these be opposite the Lord always, but let their memory perish from the earth.
16. For certain things are not remembered about them, in order to be merciful.
17. And so the destitute man was pursued, with the beggar and the remorseful in heart, so as to be put to death.
18. And he loved a curse, and it came to him. And he was unwilling to have a blessing, and it went far from him. And he clothed himself with curses like a garment, and it entered his inner self like water, and it entered his bones like oil.
19. May it be to him like a garment that covers him, and like a belt that always cinches him.
20. This is the work of those who detract me with the Lord and who speak evils against my soul.
21. But as for you, Lord, O Lord: act on my behalf for your name’s sake. For your mercy is sweet.
22. Free me, for I am destitute and poor, and my heart has been disquieted within me.
23. I have been taken away like a shadow when it declines, and I have been shaken off like locusts.
24. My knees have been weakened by fasting, and my flesh has been replaced by oil.
25. And I have become a disgrace to them. They saw me, and they shook their heads.
26. Help me, O Lord, my God. Save me according to your mercy.
27. And let them know that this is your hand, and that you, O Lord, have done this.
28. They will curse, and you will bless. May those who rise up against me be confounded. But your servant will rejoice.
29. May those who detract me be clothed with shame, and may they be covered with their confusion, as if with a double cloak.
30. I will confess exceedingly to the Lord with my mouth. And I will praise him in the midst of the multitude.
31. For he stands at the right hand of the poor, in order to save my soul from persecutors.

## Psalm 108 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In finem. Psalmus David.
2. Deus, laudem meam ne tacueris, quia os peccatoris et os dolosi super me apertum est.
3. Locuti sunt adversum me lingua dolosa, et sermonibus odii circumdederunt me: et expugnaverunt me gratis.
4. Pro eo ut me diligerent, detrahebant mihi; ego autem orabam.
5. Et posuerunt adversum me mala pro bonis, et odium pro dilectione mea.
6. Constitue super eum peccatorem, et diabolus stet a dextris ejus.
7. Cum judicatur, exeat condemnatus; et oratio ejus fiat in peccatum.
8. Fiant dies ejus pauci, et episcopatum ejus accipiat alter.
9. Fiant filii ejus orphani, et uxor ejus vidua.
10. Nutantes transferantur filii ejus et mendicent, et ejiciantur de habitationibus suis.
11. Scrutetur fœnerator omnem substantiam ejus, et diripiant alieni labores ejus.
12. Non sit illi adjutor, nec sit qui misereatur pupillis ejus.
13. Fiant nati ejus in interitum; in generatione una deleatur nomen ejus.
14. In memoriam redeat iniquitas patrum ejus in conspectu Domini, et peccatum matris ejus non deleatur.
15. Fiant contra Dominum semper, et dispereat de terra memoria eorum:
16. pro eo quod non est recordatus facere misericordiam,
17. et persecutus est hominem inopem et mendicum, et compunctum corde, mortificare.
18. Et dilexit maledictionem, et veniet ei; et noluit benedictionem, et elongabitur ab eo. Et induit maledictionem sicut vestimentum; et intravit sicut aqua in interiora ejus, et sicut oleum in ossibus ejus.
19. Fiat ei sicut vestimentum quo operitur, et sicut zona qua semper præcingitur.
20. Hoc opus eorum qui detrahunt mihi apud Dominum, et qui loquuntur mala adversus animam meam.
21. Et tu, Domine, Domine, fac mecum propter nomen tuum, quia suavis est misericordia tua.
22. Libera me, quia egenus et pauper ego sum, et cor meum conturbatum est intra me.
23. Sicut umbra cum declinat ablatus sum, et excussus sum sicut locustæ.
24. Genua mea infirmata sunt a jejunio, et caro mea immutata est propter oleum.
25. Et ego factus sum opprobrium illis; viderunt me, et moverunt capita sua.
26. Adjuva me, Domine Deus meus; salvum me fac secundum misericordiam tuam.
27. Et sciant quia manus tua hæc, et tu, Domine, fecisti eam.
28. Maledicent illi, et tu benedices: qui insurgunt in me confundantur; servus autem tuus lætabitur.
29. Induantur qui detrahunt mihi pudore, et operiantur sicut diploide confusione sua.
30. Confitebor Domino nimis in ore meo, et in medio multorum laudabo eum:
31. quia astitit a dextris pauperis, ut salvam faceret a persequentibus animam meam.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 6: Give to the devil, that arch-sinner, power over him: let him enter into him, and possess him. The imprecations, contained in the thirty verses of this psalm, are opposed to the thirty pieces of silver for which Judas betrayed our Lord; and are to be taken as prophetic denunciations of the evils that should befall the traitor and his accomplices the Jews; and not properly as curses.
- Verse 24: Propter oleum. The meaning is, my flesh is changed, being perfectly emaciated and dried up, as having lost all its oil or fatness.

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