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title: "Psalm 16 (17) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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# Psalm 16 (17)

Psalm 16 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 17 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.

> Exaudi, Domine, justitiam. A just man's prayer in tribulation against the malice of his enemy.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 16 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. A Prayer of David. Lord, listen to my justice, attend to my supplication. Pay attention to my prayer, which is not from deceitful lips.
2. Let my judgment proceed from your presence. Let your eyes behold fairness.
3. You have tested my heart and visited it by night. You have examined me by fire, and iniquity has not been found in me.
4. Therefore, may my mouth not speak the works of men. I have kept to difficult ways because of the words of your lips.
5. Perfect my steps in your paths, so that my footsteps may not be disturbed.
6. I have cried out because you, O God, have listened to me. Incline your ear to me and heed my words.
7. Make your mercies wonderful, for you save those who hope in you.
8. From those who resist your right hand, preserve me like the pupil of your eye. Protect me under the shadow of your wings,
9. from the face of the impious who have afflicted me. My enemies have surrounded my soul.
10. They have concealed their fatness; their mouth has been speaking arrogantly.
11. They have cast me out, and now they have surrounded me. They have cast their eyes down to the earth.
12. They have taken me, like a lion ready for the prey, and like a young lion dwelling in hiding.
13. Rise up, O Lord, arrive before him and displace him. Deliver my soul from the impious one: your spear from the enemies of your hand.
14. Lord, divide them from the few of the earth in their life. Their gut has been filled from your hidden stores. They have been filled with sons, and they have bequeathed to their little ones the remainder.
15. But as for me, I will appear before your sight in justice. I will be satisfied when your glory appears.

## Psalm 16 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Oratio David. Exaudi, Domine, justitiam meam; intende deprecationem meam. Auribus percipe orationem meam, non in labiis dolosis.
2. De vultu tuo judicium meum prodeat; oculi tui videant æquitates.
3. Probasti cor meum, et visitasti nocte; igne me examinasti, et non est inventa in me iniquitas.
4. Ut non loquatur os meum opera hominum: propter verba labiorum tuorum, ego custodivi vias duras.
5. Perfice gressus meos in semitis tuis, ut non moveantur vestigia mea.
6. Ego clamavi, quoniam exaudisti me, Deus; inclina aurem tuam mihi, et exaudi verba mea.
7. Mirifica misericordias tuas, qui salvos facis sperantes in te.
8. A resistentibus dexteræ tuæ custodi me ut pupillam oculi. Sub umbra alarum tuarum protege me
9. a facie impiorum qui me afflixerunt. Inimici mei animam meam circumdederunt;
10. adipem suum concluserunt: os eorum locutum est superbiam.
11. Projicientes me nunc circumdederunt me; oculos suos statuerunt declinare in terram.
12. Susceperunt me sicut leo paratus ad prædam, et sicut catulus leonis habitans in abditis.
13. Exsurge, Domine: præveni eum, et supplanta eum: eripe animam meam ab impio; frameam tuam
14. ab inimicis manus tuæ. Domine, a paucis de terra divide eos in vita eorum; de absconditis tuis adimpletus est venter eorum. Saturati sunt filiis, et dimiserunt reliquias suas parvulis suis.
15. Ego autem in justitia apparebo conspectui tuo; satiabor cum apparuerit gloria tua.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 10: That is, their bowels of compassion: for they have none for me.
- Verse 14: “Divide them from the few” … That is, cut them off from the earth, and the few trifling things thereof; which they are so proud of, or divide them from the few; that is, from thy elect, who are but few; that they may no longer have it in their power to oppress them. It is not meant by way of a curse or imprecation; but, as many other the like passages in the psalms, by way of a prediction, or prophecy of what should come upon them, in punishment of their wickedness. Ibid.
- Verse 14: Thy secret treasures, out of which thou furnishest those earthly goods, which, with a bountiful hand thou hast distributed both to the good and the bad.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, Jul 6, 2027 (computed): Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 17:1b, 2-3, 6-7ab, 8b and 15
- Wed, Nov 17, 2027 (computed): St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Religious — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 17:1bcd, 5-6, 8b and 15
- Fri, Sep 22, 2028 (computed): Friday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 17:1bcd, 6-7, 8b, 15
- Mon, Oct 2, 2028 (computed): Holy Guardian Angels — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 17:1bcd, 2-3, 6-7

1 more date through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

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).