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title: "Psalm 40 (41) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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# Psalm 40 (41)

Psalm 40 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 41 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 14 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Beatus qui intelligit. The happiness of him that shall believe in Christ; notwithstanding the humility and poverty in which he shall come: the malice of his enemies, especially of the traitor Judas.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 40 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Unto the end. A Psalm of David himself.
2. Blessed is he who shows understanding toward the needy and the poor. The Lord will deliver him in the evil day.
3. May the Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth. And may he not hand him over to the will of his adversaries.
4. May the Lord bring him help on his bed of sorrow. In his infirmity, you have changed his entire covering.
5. I said, “O Lord, be merciful to me. Heal my soul, because I have sinned against you.”
6. My enemies have spoken evils against me. When will he die and his name perish?
7. And when he came in to see me, he was speaking emptiness. His heart gathered iniquity to itself. He went outside, and he was speaking in the same way.
8. All my enemies were whispering against me. They were thinking up evils against me.
9. They established an unjust word against me. Will he that sleeps no longer rise again?
10. For even the man of my peace, in whom I hoped, who ate my bread, has greatly supplanted me.
11. But you, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again. And I will requite them.
12. By this, I knew that you preferred me: because my adversary will not rejoice over me.
13. But you have sustained me, because of my innocence, and you have confirmed me in your sight in eternity.
14. Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, for all generations and even forever. Amen. Amen.

## Psalm 40 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In finem. Psalmus ipsi David.
2. Beatus qui intelligit super egenum et pauperem: in die mala liberabit eum Dominus.
3. Dominus conservet eum, et vivificet eum, et beatum faciat eum in terra, et non tradat eum in animam inimicorum ejus.
4. Dominus opem ferat illi super lectum doloris ejus; universum stratum ejus versasti in infirmitate ejus.
5. Ego dixi: Domine, miserere mei; sana animam meam, quia peccavi tibi.
6. Inimici mei dixerunt mala mihi: Quando morietur, et peribit nomen ejus?
7. Et si ingrediebatur ut videret, vana loquebatur; cor ejus congregavit iniquitatem sibi. Egrediebatur foras et loquebatur.
8. In idipsum adversum me susurrabant omnes inimici mei; adversum me cogitabant mala mihi.
9. Verbum iniquum constituerunt adversum me: Numquid qui dormit non adjiciet ut resurgat?
10. Etenim homo pacis meæ in quo speravi, qui edebat panes meos, magnificavit super me supplantationem.
11. Tu autem, Domine, miserere mei, et resuscita me; et retribuam eis.
12. In hoc cognovi quoniam voluisti me, quoniam non gaudebit inimicus meus super me.
13. Me autem propter innocentiam suscepisti; et confirmasti me in conspectu tuo in æternum.
14. Benedictus Dominus Deus Israël a sæculo et usque in sæculum. Fiat, fiat.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).