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title: "Psalm 21 (22) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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# Psalm 21 (22)

Psalm 21 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 22 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 32 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Deus Deus meus. Christ's passion: and the conversion of the Gentiles.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 21 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Unto the end. For the tasks of early morning. A Psalm of David.
2. O God, my God, look upon me. Why have you forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my offenses.
3. My God, I will cry out by day, and you will not heed, and by night, and it will not be foolishness for me.
4. But you dwell in holiness, O Praise of Israel.
5. In you, our fathers have hoped. They hoped, and you freed them.
6. They cried out to you, and they were saved. In you, they hoped and were not confounded.
7. But I am a worm and not a man: a disgrace among men, and an outcast of the people.
8. All those who saw me have derided me. They have spoken with the lips and shook the head.
9. He has hoped in the Lord, let him rescue him. Let him save him because he chooses him.
10. For you are the one who has drawn me out of the womb, my hope from the breasts of my mother.
11. I have been thrown upon you from the womb; from the womb of my mother, you are my God.
12. Do not depart from me. For tribulation is near, since there is no one who may help me.
13. Many calves have surrounded me; fat bulls have besieged me.
14. They have opened their mouths over me, just like a lion seizing and roaring.
15. And so, I have been poured out like water, and all my bones have been scattered. My heart has become like wax, melting in the midst of my chest.
16. My strength has dried up like clay, and my tongue has adhered to my jaws. And you have pulled me down, into the dust of death.
17. For many dogs have surrounded me. The council of the malicious has besieged me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
18. They have numbered all my bones. And they have examined me and stared at me.
19. They divided my garments among them, and over my vestment, they cast lots.
20. But you, O Lord, do not take your help far from me; be attentive to my defense.
21. O God, rescue my soul from the spear, and my only one from the hand of the dog.
22. Save me from the mouth of the lion, and my humility from the horns of the single-horned beast.
23. I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the Church, I will praise you.
24. You who fear the Lord, praise him. All the offspring of Jacob, glorify him.
25. May all the offspring of Israel fear him. For he has neither spurned nor despised the pleas of the poor. Neither has he turned his face away from me. And when I cried out to him, he heeded me.
26. My praise is with you, within a great church. I will pay my vows in the sight of those who fear him.
27. The poor will eat and be satisfied, and those who yearn for the Lord will praise him. Their hearts will live forever and ever.
28. All the ends of the earth will remember, and they will be converted to the Lord. And all the families of the Gentiles will adore in his sight.
29. For the kingdom belongs to the Lord, and he will have dominion over the Gentiles.
30. All the fat of the earth have gnashed their teeth, and they have adored. In his sight, they will fall down, all those who descend to the ground.
31. And my soul will live for him, and my offspring will serve him.
32. There will be announced for the Lord a future generation, and the heavens will announce his justice to a people who will be born, whom the Lord has made.

## Psalm 21 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In finem, pro susceptione matutina. Psalmus David.
2. Deus, Deus meus, respice in me: quare me dereliquisti? longe a salute mea verba delictorum meorum.
3. Deus meus, clamabo per diem, et non exaudies; et nocte, et non ad insipientiam mihi.
4. Tu autem in sancto habitas, laus Israël.
5. In te speraverunt patres nostri; speraverunt, et liberasti eos.
6. Ad te clamaverunt, et salvi facti sunt; in te speraverunt, et non sunt confusi.
7. Ego autem sum vermis, et non homo; opprobrium hominum, et abjectio plebis.
8. Omnes videntes me deriserunt me; locuti sunt labiis, et moverunt caput.
9. Speravit in Domino, eripiat eum: salvum faciat eum, quoniam vult eum.
10. Quoniam tu es qui extraxisti me de ventre, spes mea ab uberibus matris meæ.
11. In te projectus sum ex utero; de ventre matris meæ Deus meus es tu:
12. ne discesseris a me, quoniam tribulatio proxima est, quoniam non est qui adjuvet.
13. Circumdederunt me vituli multi; tauri pingues obsederunt me.
14. Aperuerunt super me os suum, sicut leo rapiens et rugiens.
15. Sicut aqua effusus sum, et dispersa sunt omnia ossa mea: factum est cor meum tamquam cera liquescens in medio ventris mei.
16. Aruit tamquam testa virtus mea, et lingua mea adhæsit faucibus meis: et in pulverem mortis deduxisti me.
17. Quoniam circumdederunt me canes multi; concilium malignantium obsedit me. Foderunt manus meas et pedes meos;
18. dinumeraverunt omnia ossa mea. Ipsi vero consideraverunt et inspexerunt me.
19. Diviserunt sibi vestimenta mea, et super vestem meam miserunt sortem.
20. Tu autem, Domine, ne elongaveris auxilium tuum a me; ad defensionem meam conspice.
21. Erue a framea, Deus, animam meam, et de manu canis unicam meam.
22. Salva me ex ore leonis, et a cornibus unicornium humilitatem meam.
23. Narrabo nomen tuum fratribus meis; in medio ecclesiæ laudabo te.
24. Qui timetis Dominum, laudate eum; universum semen Jacob, glorificate eum.
25. Timeat eum omne semen Israël, quoniam non sprevit, neque despexit deprecationem pauperis, nec avertit faciem suam a me: et cum clamarem ad eum, exaudivit me.
26. Apud te laus mea in ecclesia magna; vota mea reddam in conspectu timentium eum.
27. Edent pauperes, et saturabuntur, et laudabunt Dominum qui requirunt eum: vivent corda eorum in sæculum sæculi.
28. Reminiscentur et convertentur ad Dominum universi fines terræ; et adorabunt in conspectu ejus universæ familiæ gentium:
29. quoniam Domini est regnum, et ipse dominabitur gentium.
30. Manducaverunt et adoraverunt omnes pingues terræ; in conspectu ejus cadent omnes qui descendunt in terram.
31. Et anima mea illi vivet; et semen meum serviet ipsi.
32. Annuntiabitur Domino generatio ventura; et annuntiabunt cæli justitiam ejus populo qui nascetur, quem fecit Dominus.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 304: The Creator ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 603: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2605: In the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2270: Respect for Human Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 112: The Holy Spirit, Interpreter of Scripture ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 716: God's Spirit and Word in the Time of the Promises ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 2: That is, the sins of the world, which I have taken upon myself, cry out against me, and are the cause of all my sufferings.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, Nov 3, 2026: Tuesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 22:26b-27, 28-30ab, 30e, 31-32
- Sun, Mar 21, 2027: Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24
- Sun, Apr 25, 2027: Fifth Sunday of Easter — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 22:26-27, 28, 30, 31-32
- Sun, Apr 9, 2028 (computed): Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24

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).