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title: "Psalm 2 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/2/
description: "Psalm 2 in the CPDV, with the Latin Vulgate. Quare fremuerunt. The vain efforts of persecutors against Christ and his church."
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# Psalm 2

Psalm 2 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows has the same number, 2, in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 13 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Quare fremuerunt. The vain efforts of persecutors against Christ and his church.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 2 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Why have the Gentiles been seething, and why have the people been pondering nonsense?
2. The kings of the earth have stood up, and the leaders have joined together as one, against the Lord and against his Christ:
3. “Let us shatter their chains and cast their yoke away from us.”
4. He who dwells in heaven will ridicule them, and the Lord will mock them.
5. Then will he speak to them in his anger and trouble them with his fury.
6. Yet I have been appointed king by him over Zion, his holy mountain, preaching his precepts.
7. The Lord has said to me: You are my son, this day have I begotten you.
8. Ask of me and I will give to you: the Gentiles for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession.
9. You will rule them with an iron rod, and you will shatter them like a potter’s vessel.
10. And now, O kings, understand. Receive instruction, you who judge the earth.
11. Serve the Lord in fear, and exult in him with trembling.
12. Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord might become angry, and you would perish from the way of the just.
13. Though his wrath can flare up in a short time, blessed are all those who trust in him.

## Psalm 2 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Quare fremuerunt gentes, et populi meditati sunt inania?
2. Astiterunt reges terræ, et principes convenerunt in unum adversus Dominum, et adversus christum ejus.
3. Dirumpamus vincula eorum, et projiciamus a nobis jugum ipsorum.
4. Qui habitat in cælis irridebit eos, et Dominus subsannabit eos.
5. Tunc loquetur ad eos in ira sua, et in furore suo conturbabit eos.
6. Ego autem constitutus sum rex ab eo super Sion, montem sanctum ejus, prædicans præceptum ejus.
7. Dominus dixit ad me: Filius meus es tu; ego hodie genui te.
8. Postula a me, et dabo tibi gentes hæreditatem tuam, et possessionem tuam terminos terræ.
9. Reges eos in virga ferrea, et tamquam vas figuli confringes eos.
10. Et nunc, reges, intelligite; erudimini, qui judicatis terram.
11. Servite Domino in timore, et exsultate ei cum tremore.
12. Apprehendite disciplinam, nequando irascatur Dominus, et pereatis de via justa.
13. Cum exarserit in brevi ira ejus, beati omnes qui confidunt in eo.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 600: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 436: Christ ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1502: Its Foundations in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 441: The Only Son of God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2606: In the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 653: On the Third Day He Rose From the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2836: "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Read at Mass (US)

- Mon, Jan 4, 2027: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Religious — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 2:7bc-8, 10-12a
- Fri, Apr 23, 2027: Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 2:6-7, 8-9, 10-11ab
- Mon, Jan 3, 2028 (computed): Monday after Epiphany — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 2:7bc-8, 10-12a
- Mon, Apr 24, 2028 (computed): Monday of the Second Week of Easter — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 2:1-3, 4-7a, 7b-9

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

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).