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title: "Psalm 48 (49) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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description: "Psalm 48 (Psalm 49 in Hebrew numbering) in the CPDV, with the Latin Vulgate. Audite haec, omnes gentes. The folly of worldlings, who live on in sin…"
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# Psalm 48 (49)

Psalm 48 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 49 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 21 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Audite haec, omnes gentes. The folly of worldlings, who live on in sin, without thinking of death or hell.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 48 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Unto the end. A Psalm to the sons of Korah.
2. Hear these things, all nations. Pay attention, all inhabitants of the world:
3. whoever is earth-born, you sons of men, together as one, the rich and the poor.
4. My mouth will speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will speak prudence.
5. I will incline my ear to a parable. I will open my case with the psaltery.
6. Why should I fear in the evil day? The iniquity at my heel will surround me.
7. Those who trust in their own strength and who glory in the multitude of their riches,
8. no brother redeems, nor will man buy back. He will not give to God his appeasement,
9. nor the price for the redemption of his soul. And he will labor continuously,
10. and he will still live, until the end.
11. He will not see death, when he sees the wise dying: the foolish and the senseless will perish together. And they will leave their riches to strangers.
12. And their sepulchers will be their houses forever, their tabernacles from generation to generation. They have called their names in their own lands.
13. And man, when he was held in honor, did not understand. He has been compared to the senseless beasts, and he has become like them.
14. This way of theirs is a scandal to them. And afterwards, they will delight in their mouth.
15. They have been placed in Hell like sheep. Death will feed on them. And the just will have dominion over them in the morning. And their help will grow old in Hell for their glory.
16. Even so, truly God will redeem my soul from the hand of Hell, when he will receive me.
17. Do not be afraid, when a man will have been made rich, and when the glory of his house will have been multiplied.
18. For when he dies, he will take nothing away, and his glory will not descend with him.
19. For his soul will be blessed in his lifetime, and he will admit to you when you do good to him.
20. He will even enter with the progeny of his fathers, but, even in eternity, he will not see the light.
21. Man, when he was in honor, did not understand. He has been compared to the senseless beasts, and he has become like them.

## Psalm 48 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In finem, filiis Core. Psalmus.
2. Audite hæc, omnes gentes; auribus percipite, omnes qui habitatis orbem:
3. quique terrigenæ et filii hominum, simul in unum dives et pauper.
4. Os meum loquetur sapientiam, et meditatio cordis mei prudentiam.
5. Inclinabo in parabolam aurem meam; aperiam in psalterio propositionem meam.
6. Cur timebo in die mala? iniquitas calcanei mei circumdabit me.
7. Qui confidunt in virtute sua, et in multitudine divitiarum suarum, gloriantur.
8. Frater non redimit, redimet homo: non dabit Deo placationem suam,
9. et pretium redemptionis animæ suæ. Et laborabit in æternum;
10. et vivet adhuc in finem.
11. Non videbit interitum, cum viderit sapientes morientes: simul insipiens et stultus peribunt. Et relinquent alienis divitias suas,
12. et sepulchra eorum domus illorum in æternum; tabernacula eorum in progenie et progenie: vocaverunt nomina sua in terris suis.
13. Et homo, cum in honore esset, non intellexit. Comparatus est jumentis insipientibus, et similis factus est illis.
14. Hæc via illorum scandalum ipsis; et postea in ore suo complacebunt.
15. Sicut oves in inferno positi sunt: mors depascet eos. Et dominabuntur eorum justi in matutino; et auxilium eorum veterascet in inferno a gloria eorum.
16. Verumtamen Deus redimet animam meam de manu inferi, cum acceperit me.
17. Ne timueris cum dives factus fuerit homo, et cum multiplicata fuerit gloria domus ejus:
18. quoniam, cum interierit, non sumet omnia, neque descendet cum eo gloria ejus.
19. Quia anima ejus in vita ipsius benedicetur; confitebitur tibi cum benefeceris ei.
20. Introibit usque in progenies patrum suorum; et usque in æternum non videbit lumen.
21. Homo, cum in honore esset, non intellexit. Comparatus est jumentis insipientibus, et similis factus est illis.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 6: That is, the iniquity of my steps or ways: or the iniquity of my pride, with which as with the heel, I have spurned and kicked at my neighbours: or the iniquity of my heel, that is, the iniquity in which I shall be found in death. The meaning of this verse is, Why should I now indulge those passions and sinful affections, or commit now those sins, which will cause me so much fear and anguish in the evil day; when the sorrows of death shall compass me, and the perils of hell shall find me?
- Verse 7: As much as to say, let them fear that trust in their strength or riches: for they have great reason to fear: seeing no brother or other man, how much a friend soever, can by any price or labour rescue them from death.
- Verse 9: This seems to be a continuation of the foregoing sentence: as much as to say no man can by any price or ransom prolong his life, that so he may still continue to labour here, and live to the end of the world. Others understand it of the eternal sorrows, and dying life of hell, which is the dreadful consequence of dying in sin.
- Verse 11: Or, shall he not see destruction? As much as to say, however thoughtless he may be of his death, he must not expect to escape; when even the wise and the good are not exempt from dying.
- Verse 12: “They have called” … That is, they have left their names on their graves, which alone remain of their lands.
- Verse 14: Notwithstanding the wretched way in which they walk, they shall applaud themselves with their mouths, and glory in their doings.
- Verse 15: “In the morning” … That is, in the resurrection to a new life; when the just shall judge and condemn the wicked. Ibid.
- Verse 15: That is, when their short-lived glory in this world shall be past, and be no more.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Fri, Sep 17, 2027 (computed): Friday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 49:6-7, 8-10, 17-18, 19-20
- Wed, Feb 23, 2028 (computed): Wednesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 49:2-3, 6-7, 8-10, 11
- Thu, Feb 24, 2028 (computed): Thursday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 49:14-15ab, 15cd-16, 17-18, 19-20

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).