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title: "Psalm 143 (144) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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# Psalm 143 (144)

Psalm 143 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 144 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 15 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Benedictus Dominus. The prophet praiseth God, and prayeth to be delivered from his enemies. No worldly happiness is to be compared with that of serving God. A psalm of David against Goliath.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 143 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. A Psalm of David versus Goliath. Blessed is the Lord, my God, who trains my hands for the battle and my fingers for the war.
2. My mercy and my refuge, my supporter and my deliverer, my protector and him in whom I have hoped: he subdues my people under me.
3. O Lord, what is man that you have become known to him? Or the son of man that you consider him?
4. Man has been made similar to vanity. His days pass by like a shadow.
5. O Lord, incline your heavens and descend. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
6. Send a flash of lightning, and you will scatter them. Shoot your arrows, and you will set them in disarray.
7. Send forth your hand from on high: rescue me, and free me from many waters, from the hand of the sons of foreigners.
8. Their mouth has been speaking vain things, and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
9. To you, O God, I will sing a new song. On the psaltery, with an instrument of ten strings, I will sing psalms to you.
10. He gives salvation to kings. He has redeemed your servant David from the malignant sword.
11. Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of the sons of foreigners. Their mouth has been speaking vain things, and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
12. Their sons are like new plantings in their youth. Their daughters are dressed up: adorned all around like the idols of a temple.
13. Their cupboards are full: overflowing from one thing into another. Their sheep bear young, brought forth in abundance.
14. Their cattle are fat. There is no ruined wall or passage, nor anyone crying out in their streets.
15. They have called the people that has these things: blessed. But blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.

## Psalm 143 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Psalmus David. Adversus Goliath. Benedictus Dominus Deus meus, qui docet manus meas ad prælium, et digitos meos ad bellum.
2. Misericordia mea et refugium meum; susceptor meus et liberator meus; protector meus, et in ipso speravi, qui subdit populum meum sub me.
3. Domine, quid est homo, quia innotuisti ei? aut filius hominis, quia reputas eum?
4. Homo vanitati similis factus est; dies ejus sicut umbra prætereunt.
5. Domine, inclina cælos tuos, et descende; tange montes, et fumigabunt.
6. Fulgura coruscationem, et dissipabis eos; emitte sagittas tuas, et conturbabis eos.
7. Emitte manum tuam de alto: eripe me, et libera me de aquis multis, de manu filiorum alienorum:
8. quorum os locutum est vanitatem, et dextera eorum dextera iniquitatis.
9. Deus, canticum novum cantabo tibi; in psalterio decachordo psallam tibi.
10. Qui das salutem regibus, qui redemisti David servum tuum de gladio maligno,
11. eripe me, et erue me de manu filiorum alienorum, quorum os locutum est vanitatem, et dextera eorum dextera iniquitatis.
12. Quorum filii sicut novellæ plantationes in juventute sua; filiæ eorum compositæ, circumornatæ ut similitudo templi.
13. Promptuaria eorum plena, eructantia ex hoc in illud; oves eorum fœtosæ, abundantes in egressibus suis;
14. boves eorum crassæ. Non est ruina maceriæ, neque transitus, neque clamor in plateis eorum.
15. Beatum dixerunt populum cui hæc sunt; beatus populus cujus Dominus Deus ejus.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Thu, Oct 29, 2026: Thursday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 144:1b, 2, 9-10
- Sat, Nov 21, 2026: Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 144:1, 2, 9-10
- Wed, Jan 19, 2028 (computed): Wednesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 144:1b, 2, 9-10
- Sat, Nov 25, 2028 (computed): Saturday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 144:1, 2, 9-10

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). 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).