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title: "Psalm 140 (141) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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description: "Psalm 140 (Psalm 141 in Hebrew numbering) in the CPDV, with the Latin Vulgate. Domine, clamavi. A prayer against sinful words, and deceitful flatterers.…"
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# Psalm 140 (141)

Psalm 140 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 141 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 10 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Domine, clamavi. A prayer against sinful words, and deceitful flatterers. A psalm of David.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 140 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. A Psalm of David. O Lord, I have cried out to you, hear me. Attend to my voice, when I cry out to you.
2. Let my prayer be guided like incense in your sight: the lifting up of my hands, like the evening sacrifice.
3. O Lord, station a guard over my mouth and a door enclosing my lips.
4. Do not turn aside my heart to words of malice, to making excuses for sins, with men who work iniquity; and I will not communicate, even with the best of them.
5. The just one will correct me with mercy, and he will rebuke me. But do not allow the oil of the sinner to fatten my head. For my prayer will still be toward their good will.
6. Their judges have been engulfed, joined to the rocks. They will hear my words, which have prevailed,
7. as when the lava of the earth has erupted above ground. Our bones have been scattered beside Hell.
8. For Lord, O Lord, my eyes look to you. In you, I have hoped. Do not take away my soul.
9. Protect me from the snare that they have set up for me and from the scandals of those who work iniquity.
10. The sinners will fall into his net. I am alone, until I pass over.

## Psalm 140 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Psalmus David. Domine, clamavi ad te: exaudi me; intende voci meæ, cum clamavero ad te.
2. Dirigatur oratio mea sicut incensum in conspectu tuo; elevatio manuum mearum sacrificium vespertinum.
3. Pone, Domine, custodiam ori meo, et ostium circumstantiæ labiis meis.
4. Non declines cor meum in verba malitiæ, ad excusandas excusationes in peccatis; cum hominibus operantibus iniquitatem, et non communicabo cum electis eorum.
5. Corripiet me justus in misericordia, et increpabit me: oleum autem peccatoris non impinguet caput meum. Quoniam adhuc et oratio mea in beneplacitis eorum:
6. absorpti sunt juncti petræ judices eorum. Audient verba mea, quoniam potuerunt.
7. Sicut crassitudo terræ erupta est super terram, dissipata sunt ossa nostra secus infernum.
8. Quia ad te, Domine, Domine, oculi mei; in te speravi, non auferas animam meam.
9. Custodi me a laqueo quem statuerunt mihi, et a scandalis operantium iniquitatem.
10. Cadent in retiaculo ejus peccatores: singulariter sum ego, donec transeam.

## The saints

- “For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trial as well as joy.” — St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul, ch. 11, 1897 (On this theme: verse 2)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 5: That is, the flattery, or deceitful praise.-- Ibid.
- Verse 5: “For my prayer” … So far from coveting their praises, who are never well pleased but with things that are evil; I shall continually pray to be preserved from such things as they are delighted with.
- Verse 6: “Their judges” … Their rulers, or chiefs, quickly vanish and perish, like ships dashed against the rocks, and swallowed up by the waves. Let them then hear my words, for they are powerful and will prevail; or, as it is in the Hebrew, for they are sweet.
- Verse 10: “I am alone” … Singularly protected by the Almighty, until I pass all their nets and snares.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sat, Feb 26, 2028 (computed): Saturday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 141:1-2, 3 and 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).