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title: "Psalm 119 (120) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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# Psalm 119 (120)

Psalm 119 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 120 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 7 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Ad Dominum. A prayer in tribulation. A gradual canticle. The following psalms, in number fifteen, are called gradual psalms, or canticles, from the word gradus, signifying steps, ascensions, or degrees: either because they were appointed to be sung on the fifteen steps, by which the people ascended to the temple: or, that in the singing of them the voice was to be raised by certain steps or ascensions: or, that they were to be sung by the people returning from their captivity and ascending to Jerusalem, which was seated amongst mountains. The holy fathers, in a mystical sense, understand these steps, or ascensions, of the degrees by which Christians spiritually ascend to virtue and perfection; and to the true temple of God in the heavenly Jerusalem.
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> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 119 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. A Canticle in steps. When troubled, I cried out to the Lord, and he heard me.
2. O Lord, free my soul from lips of iniquity and from the deceitful tongue.
3. What will be given to you, or what will be added to you, for a deceitful tongue?:
4. the sharp arrows of the powerful, along with the burning coals of desolation.
5. Woe to me, for my sojourning has been prolonged. I have lived with the inhabitants of Kedar.
6. My soul has long been a sojourner.
7. With those who hated peace, I was peaceful. When I spoke to them, they fought against me without cause.

## Psalm 119 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Canticum graduum. Ad Dominum cum tribularer clamavi, et exaudivit me.
2. Domine, libera animam meam a labiis iniquis et a lingua dolosa.
3. Quid detur tibi, aut quid apponatur tibi ad linguam dolosam?
4. Sagittæ potentis acutæ, cum carbonibus desolatoriis.
5. Heu mihi, quia incolatus meus prolongatus est! habitavi cum habitantibus Cedar;
6. multum incola fuit anima mea.
7. Cum his qui oderunt pacem eram pacificus; cum loquebar illis, impugnabant me gratis.

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