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title: "Psalm 11 (12) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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description: "Psalm 11 (Psalm 12 in Hebrew numbering) in the CPDV, with the Latin Vulgate. Salvum me fac. The prophet calls for God's help against the wicked."
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# Psalm 11 (12)

Psalm 11 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 12 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 9 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Salvum me fac. The prophet calls for God's help against the wicked.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 11 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Unto the end. For the octave. A Psalm of David.
2. Save me, O Lord, because holiness has passed away, because truths have been diminished, before the sons of men.
3. They have been speaking emptiness, each one to his neighbor; they have been speaking with deceitful lips and a duplicitous heart.
4. May the Lord scatter all deceitful lips, along with the tongue that speaks malice.
5. They have said: “We will magnify our tongue; our lips belong to us. What is Lord to us?”
6. Because of the misery of the destitute and the groaning of the poor, now I will arise, says the Lord. I will place him in safety. I will act faithfully toward him.
7. The eloquence of the Lord is pure eloquence, silver tested by fire, purged from the earth, refined seven times.
8. You, O Lord, will preserve us, and you will guard us from this generation into eternity.
9. The impious wander aimlessly. According to your loftiness, you have multiplied the sons of men.

## Psalm 11 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In finem, pro octava. Psalmus David.
2. Salvum me fac, Domine, quoniam defecit sanctus, quoniam diminutæ sunt veritates a filiis hominum.
3. Vana locuti sunt unusquisque ad proximum suum; labia dolosa, in corde et corde locuti sunt.
4. Disperdat Dominus universa labia dolosa, et linguam magniloquam.
5. Qui dixerunt: Linguam nostram magnificabimus; labia nostra a nobis sunt. Quis noster dominus est?
6. Propter miseriam inopum, et gemitum pauperum, nunc exsurgam, dicit Dominus. Ponam in salutari; fiducialiter agam in eo.
7. Eloquia Domini, eloquia casta; argentum igne examinatum, probatum terræ, purgatum septuplum.
8. Tu, Domine, servabis nos, et custodies nos a generatione hac in æternum.
9. In circuitu impii ambulant: secundum altitudinem tuam multiplicasti filios hominum.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sat, Feb 19, 2028 (computed): Saturday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 12:2-3, 4-5, 7-8

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).