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title: "Psalm 44 (45) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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# Psalm 44 (45)

Psalm 44 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 45 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 18 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Eructavit cor meum. The excellence of Christ's kingdom, and the endowments of his church.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 44 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Unto the end. For those who will be changed. To the sons of Korah, toward understanding. A Canticle for the Beloved.
2. My heart has uttered a good word. I speak of my works to the king. My tongue is like the pen of a scribe who writes quickly.
3. You are a brilliant form before the sons of men. Grace has been poured freely into your lips. Because of this, God has blessed you in eternity.
4. Fasten your sword to your thigh, O most powerful one.
5. With your splendor and your excellence extended, proceed prosperously, and reign for the sake of truth and meekness and justice, and so will your right hand lead you wondrously.
6. Your arrows are sharp; the people will fall under you, with the hearts of the enemies of the king.
7. Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of true aim.
8. You have loved justice and hated iniquity. Because of this, God, your God, has anointed you, before your co-heirs, with the oil of gladness.
9. Myrrh and balsam and cinnamon perfume your garments, from the houses of ivory. From these, they have delighted you:
10. the daughters of kings in your honor. The queen assisted at your right hand, in clothing of gold, encircled with diversity.
11. Listen, daughter, and see, and incline your ear. And forget your people and your father’s house.
12. And the king will desire your beauty. For he is the Lord your God, and they will adore him.
13. And the daughters of Tyre will entreat your countenance with gifts: all the rich men of the people.
14. All the glory of the daughter of its king is inside, in golden fringes,
15. clothed all around with diversities. After her, virgins will be led to the king. Her neighbors will be brought to you.
16. They will be brought with gladness and exultation. They will be led into the temple of the king.
17. For your fathers, sons have been born to you. You will establish them as leaders over all the earth.
18. They will remember your name always, for generation after generation. Because of this, people will confess to you in eternity, even forever and ever.

## Psalm 44 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In finem, pro iis qui commutabuntur. Filiis Core, ad intellectum. Canticum pro dilecto.
2. Eructavit cor meum verbum bonum: dico ego opera mea regi. Lingua mea calamus scribæ velociter scribentis.
3. Speciosus forma præ filiis hominum, diffusa est gratia in labiis tuis: propterea benedixit te Deus in æternum.
4. Accingere gladio tuo super femur tuum, potentissime.
5. Specie tua et pulchritudine tua intende, prospere procede, et regna, propter veritatem, et mansuetudinem, et justitiam; et deducet te mirabiliter dextera tua.
6. Sagittæ tuæ acutæ: populi sub te cadent, in corda inimicorum regis.
7. Sedes tua, Deus, in sæculum sæculi; virga directionis virga regni tui.
8. Dilexisti justitiam, et odisti iniquitatem; propterea unxit te Deus, Deus tuus, oleo lætitiæ, præ consortibus tuis.
9. Myrrha, et gutta, et casia a vestimentis tuis, a domibus eburneis; ex quibus delectaverunt te
10. filiæ regum in honore tuo. Astitit regina a dextris tuis in vestitu deaurato, circumdata varietate.
11. Audi, filia, et vide, et inclina aurem tuam; et obliviscere populum tuum, et domum patris tui.
12. Et concupiscet rex decorem tuum, quoniam ipse est Dominus Deus tuus, et adorabunt eum.
13. Et filiæ Tyri in muneribus vultum tuum deprecabuntur; omnes divites plebis.
14. Omnis gloria ejus filiæ regis ab intus, in fimbriis aureis,
15. circumamicta varietatibus. Adducentur regi virgines post eam; proximæ ejus afferentur tibi.
16. Afferentur in lætitia et exsultatione; adducentur in templum regis.
17. Pro patribus tuis nati sunt tibi filii; constitues eos principes super omnem terram.
18. Memores erunt nominis tui in omni generatione et generationem: propterea populi confitebuntur tibi in æternum, et in sæculum sæculi.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: i. e., for souls happily changed, by being converted to God.-- Ibid.
- Verse 1: “The Beloved” … Viz., Our Lord Jesus Christ.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sun, Aug 15, 2027 (computed): Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 45:10, 11, 12, 16
- Tue, Aug 15, 2028 (computed): Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 45:10, 11, 12, 16
- Wed, Sep 13, 2028 (computed): St. John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 45:11-12, 14-15, 16-17

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).