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title: "Psalm 31 (32) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/31/
description: "Psalm 31 (Psalm 32 in Hebrew numbering) in the CPDV, with the Latin Vulgate. Beati quorum. The second penitential psalm."
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# Psalm 31 (32)

Psalm 31 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 32 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 11 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Beati quorum. The second penitential psalm.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 31 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. The understanding of David himself. Blessed are they whose iniquities have been forgiven and whose sins have been covered.
2. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord has not imputed sin, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
3. Because I was silent, my bones grew old, while still I cried out all day long.
4. For, day and night, your hand was heavy upon me. I have been converted in my anguish, while still the thorn is piercing.
5. I have acknowledged my offense to you, and I have not concealed my injustice. I said, “I will confess against myself, my injustice to the Lord,” and you forgave the impiety of my sin.
6. For this, everyone who is holy will pray to you in due time. Yet truly, in a flood of many waters, they will not draw near to him.
7. You are my refuge from the tribulation that has surrounded me. You are my exultation: rescue me from those who are surrounding me.
8. I will give you understanding, and I will instruct you in this way, in which you will walk. I will fix my eyes upon you.
9. Do not become like the horse and the mule, which have no understanding. Their jaws are constrained with bit and bridle, so as not to draw near to you.
10. Many are the scourges of the sinner, but mercy will surround him that hopes in the Lord.
11. Rejoice in the Lord and exult, you just ones, and glory, all you upright of heart.

## Psalm 31 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Ipsi David intellectus. Beati quorum remissæ sunt iniquitates, et quorum tecta sunt peccata.
2. Beatus vir cui non imputavit Dominus peccatum, nec est in spiritu ejus dolus.
3. Quoniam tacui, inveteraverunt ossa mea, dum clamarem tota die.
4. Quoniam die ac nocte gravata est super me manus tua, conversus sum in ærumna mea, dum configitur spina.
5. Delictum meum cognitum tibi feci, et injustitiam meam non abscondi. Dixi: Confitebor adversum me injustitiam meam Domino; et tu remisisti impietatem peccati mei.
6. Pro hac orabit ad te omnis sanctus in tempore opportuno. Verumtamen in diluvio aquarum multarum, ad eum non approximabunt.
7. Tu es refugium meum a tribulatione quæ circumdedit me; exsultatio mea, erue me a circumdantibus me.
8. Intellectum tibi dabo, et instruam te in via hac qua gradieris; firmabo super te oculos meos.
9. Nolite fieri sicut equus et mulus, quibus non est intellectus. In camo et freno maxillas eorum constringe, qui non approximant ad te.
10. Multa flagella peccatoris; sperantem autem in Domino misericordia circumdabit.
11. Lætamini in Domino, et exsultate, justi; et gloriamini, omnes recti corde.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 304: The Creator ([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))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 3: “Because I was silent” … That is, whilst I kept silence, by concealing, or refusing to confess my sins, thy hand was heavy upon me, etc.
- Verse 4: That is, I turn and roll about in my bed to seek for ease in my pain whilst the thorn of thy justice pierces my flesh, and sticks fast in me. Or, I am turned: that is, I am converted to thee, my God, by being brought to a better understanding by thy chastisements. In the Hebrew it is, my moisture is turned into the droughts of the summer.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Mon, May 24, 2027: Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 32:1-2, 5, 6, 7
- Fri, Oct 15, 2027 (computed): St. Teresa of Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 32:1b-2, 5, 11

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).