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title: "Psalm 41 (42) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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# Psalm 41 (42)

Psalm 41 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 42 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 12 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Quemadmodum desiderat. The fervent desire of the just after God: hope in afflictions.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 41 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Unto the end. The understanding of the sons of Korah.
2. As the deer longs for fountains of water, so my soul longs for you, O God.
3. My soul has thirsted for the strong living God. When will I draw close and appear before the face of God?
4. My tears have been my bread, day and night. Meanwhile, it is said to me daily: “Where is your God?”
5. These things I have remembered; and my soul within me, I have poured out. For I will cross into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, all the way to the house of God, with a voice of exultation and confession, the sound of feasting.
6. Why are you sad, my soul? And why do you disquiet me? Hope in God, for I will still confess to him: the salvation of my countenance,
7. and my God. My soul has been troubled within myself. Because of this, I will remember you from the land of the Jordan and from Hermon, from the little mountain.
8. Abyss calls upon abyss, with the voice of your floodgate. All your heights and your waves have passed over me.
9. In the daylight, the Lord has ordered his mercy; and in the night, a canticle to him. With me is a prayer to the God of my life.
10. I will say to God, “You are my supporter. Why have you forgotten me? And why do I walk in mourning, while my adversary afflicts me?”
11. While my bones are being broken, my enemies, who trouble me, have reproached me. Meanwhile, they say to me every single day, “Where is your God?”
12. My soul, why are you saddened? And why do you disquiet me? Hope in God, for I will still confess to him: the salvation of my countenance and my God.

## Psalm 41 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In finem. Intellectus filiis Core.
2. Quemadmodum desiderat cervus ad fontes aquarum, ita desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus.
3. Sitivit anima mea ad Deum fortem, vivum; quando veniam, et apparebo ante faciem Dei?
4. Fuerunt mihi lacrimæ meæ panes die ac nocte, dum dicitur mihi quotidie: Ubi est Deus tuus?
5. Hæc recordatus sum, et effudi in me animam meam, quoniam transibo in locum tabernaculi admirabilis, usque ad domum Dei, in voce exsultationis et confessionis, sonus epulantis.
6. Quare tristis es, anima mea? et quare conturbas me? Spera in Deo, quoniam adhuc confitebor illi, salutare vultus mei,
7. et Deus meus. Ad meipsum anima mea conturbata est: propterea memor ero tui de terra Jordanis et Hermoniim a monte modico.
8. Abyssus abyssum invocat, in voce cataractarum tuarum; omnia excelsa tua, et fluctus tui super me transierunt.
9. In die mandavit Dominus misericordiam suam, et nocte canticum ejus; apud me oratio Deo vitæ meæ.
10. Dicam Deo: Susceptor meus es; quare oblitus es mei? et quare contristatus incedo, dum affligit me inimicus?
11. Dum confringuntur ossa mea, exprobraverunt mihi qui tribulant me inimici mei, dum dicunt mihi per singulos dies: Ubi est Deus tuus?
12. Quare tristis es, anima mea? et quare conturbas me? Spera in Deo, quoniam adhuc confitebor illi, salutare vultus mei, et Deus meus.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2112: "You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2803: The Seven Petitions ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “The Psalms are a mirror in which you see yourself and the movements of your own soul.” — St. Athanasius, Letter to Marcellinus, c. 350 (On this verse: verse 5)
- “Where have You hidden, Beloved, and left me moaning? You fled like the stag after wounding me; I went out calling You, and You were gone.” — St. John of the Cross, Spiritual Canticle, stanza 1, 1584 (On this theme: verse 1)

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sat, Oct 31, 2026: Saturday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 42:2, 3, 5cdef
- Mon, Mar 1, 2027: Monday of the Third Week of Lent — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4
- Sat, Mar 27, 2027: Holy Saturday — the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 42:3, 5; 43:3, 4
- Mon, Apr 19, 2027: Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 42:2-3; 43:3, 4

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

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). 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).