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title: "Psalm 49 (50) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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# Psalm 49 (50)

Psalm 49 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 50 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 23 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Deus deorum. The coming of Christ: who prefers virtue and inward purity before the blood of victims.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 49 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord has spoken, and he has called the earth, from the rising of the sun even to its setting,
2. from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty.
3. God will arrive manifestly. Our God also will not keep silence. A fire will flare up in his sight, and a mighty tempest will surround him.
4. He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people.
5. Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.
6. And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge.
7. Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God.
8. I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.
9. I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.
10. For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.
11. I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.
12. If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.
13. Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats?
14. Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High.
15. And call upon me in the day of tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.
16. But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth?
17. Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.
18. If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.
19. Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.
20. Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son.
21. These things you have done, and I was silent. You thought, unjustly, that I ought to be like you. But I will reprove you, and I will set myself against your face.
22. Understand these things, you who forget God; lest at any time, he might quickly take you away, and there would be no one to rescue you.
23. The sacrifice of praise will honor me. And in that place is the journey by which I will reveal to him the salvation of God.

## Psalm 49 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Psalmus Asaph. Deus deorum Dominus locutus est, et vocavit terram a solis ortu usque ad occasum.
2. Ex Sion species decoris ejus:
3. Deus manifeste veniet; Deus noster, et non silebit. Ignis in conspectu ejus exardescet; et in circuitu ejus tempestas valida.
4. Advocabit cælum desursum, et terram, discernere populum suum.
5. Congregate illi sanctos ejus, qui ordinant testamentum ejus super sacrificia.
6. Et annuntiabunt cæli justitiam ejus, quoniam Deus judex est.
7. Audi, populus meus, et loquar; Israël, et testificabor tibi: Deus, Deus tuus ego sum.
8. Non in sacrificiis tuis arguam te; holocausta autem tua in conspectu meo sunt semper.
9. Non accipiam de domo tua vitulos, neque de gregibus tuis hircos:
10. quoniam meæ sunt omnes feræ silvarum, jumenta in montibus, et boves.
11. Cognovi omnia volatilia cæli, et pulchritudo agri mecum est.
12. Si esuriero, non dicam tibi: meus est enim orbis terræ et plenitudo ejus.
13. Numquid manducabo carnes taurorum? aut sanguinem hircorum potabo?
14. Immola Deo sacrificium laudis, et redde Altissimo vota tua.
15. Et invoca me in die tribulationis: eruam te, et honorificabis me.
16. Peccatori autem dixit Deus: Quare tu enarras justitias meas? et assumis testamentum meum per os tuum?
17. Tu vero odisti disciplinam, et projecisti sermones meos retrorsum.
18. Si videbas furem, currebas cum eo; et cum adulteris portionem tuam ponebas.
19. Os tuum abundavit malitia, et lingua tua concinnabat dolos.
20. Sedens adversus fratrem tuum loquebaris, et adversus filium matris tuæ ponebas scandalum.
21. Hæc fecisti, et tacui. Existimasti inique quod ero tui similis: arguam te, et statuam contra faciem tuam.
22. Intelligite hæc, qui obliviscimini Deum, nequando rapiat, et non sit qui eripiat.
23. Sacrificium laudis honorificabit me, et illic iter quo ostendam illi salutare Dei.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 1039: The Last Judgment ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, Feb 23, 2027: Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21 and 23
- Tue, May 25, 2027: Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 50:5-6, 7-8, 14, 23
- Sat, Jul 24, 2027 (computed): Saturday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 50:1b-2, 5-6, 14-15
- Thu, Nov 18, 2027 (computed): Thursday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 50:1b-2, 5-6, 14-15

5 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). 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).