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title: "Psalm 141 (142) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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description: "Psalm 141 (Psalm 142 in Hebrew numbering) in the CPDV, with the Latin Vulgate. Voce mea. A prayer of David in extremity of danger."
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# Psalm 141 (142)

Psalm 141 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 142 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 8 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Voce mea. A prayer of David in extremity of danger.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 141 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. The understanding of David. A prayer, when he was in the cave.
2. With my voice, I cried out to the Lord. With my voice, I made supplication to the Lord.
3. In his sight, I pour out my prayer, and before him, I declare my tribulation.
4. Though my spirit may become faint within me, even then, you have known my paths. Along this way, which I have been walking, they have hidden a snare for me.
5. I considered toward the right, and I looked, but there was no one who would know me. Flight has perished before me, and there is no one who has concern for my soul.
6. I cried out to you, O Lord. I said: You are my hope, my portion in the land of the living.
7. Attend to my supplication. For I have been humbled exceedingly. Free me from my persecutors, for they have been fortified against me.
8. Lead my soul out of confinement in order to confess your name. The just are waiting for me, until you repay me.

## Psalm 141 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Intellectus David, cum esset in spelunca, oratio.
2. Voce mea ad Dominum clamavi, voce mea ad Dominum deprecatus sum.
3. Effundo in conspectu ejus orationem meam, et tribulationem meam ante ipsum pronuntio:
4. in deficiendo ex me spiritum meum, et tu cognovisti semitas meas. In via hac qua ambulabam absconderunt laqueum mihi.
5. Considerabam ad dexteram, et videbam, et non erat qui cognosceret me: periit fuga a me, et non est qui requirat animam meam.
6. Clamavi ad te, Domine; dixi: Tu es spes mea, portio mea in terra viventium.
7. Intende ad deprecationem meam, quia humiliatus sum nimis. Libera me a persequentibus me, quia confortati sunt super me.
8. Educ de custodia animam meam ad confitendum nomini tuo; me exspectant justi donec retribuas mihi.

## The saints

- “Who can teach me what is most pleasing to God, that I may do it?” — St. Kateri Tekakwitha, popular saying, source unconfirmed (Attributed: verse 8)

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