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# Psalm 50 (51)

Psalm 50 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 51 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.

> Miserere. The repentance and confession of David after his sin. The fourth penitential psalm.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 50 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Unto the end. A Psalm of David,
2. when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he went to Bathsheba.
3. Be merciful to me, O God, according to your great mercy. And, according to the plentitude of your compassion, wipe out my iniquity.
4. Wash me once again from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
5. For I know my iniquity, and my sin is ever before me.
6. Against you only have I sinned, and I have done evil before your eyes. And so, you are justified in your words, and you will prevail when you give judgment.
7. For behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sinfulness did my mother conceive me.
8. For behold, you have loved truth. The obscure and hidden things of your wisdom, you have manifested to me.
9. You will sprinkle me with hyssop, and I will be cleansed. You will wash me, and I will be made whiter than snow.
10. In my hearing, you will grant gladness and rejoicing. And the bones that have been humbled will exult.
11. Turn your face away from my sins, and erase all my iniquities.
12. Create a clean heart in me, O God. And renew an upright spirit within my inmost being.
13. Do not cast me away from your face; and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.
14. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and confirm me with an unsurpassed spirit.
15. I will teach the unjust your ways, and the impious will be converted to you.
16. Free me from blood, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will extol your justice.
17. O Lord, you will open my lips, and my mouth will announce your praise.
18. For if you had desired sacrifice, I would certainly have given it, but with holocausts, you will not be delighted.
19. A crushed spirit is a sacrifice to God. A contrite and humbled heart, O God, you will not spurn.
20. Act kindly, Lord, in your good will toward Zion, so that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.
21. Then you will accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations, and holocausts. Then they will lay calves upon your altar.

## Psalm 50 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In finem. Psalmus David,
2. cum venit ad eum Nathan propheta, quando intravit ad Bethsabee.
3. Miserere mei, Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam; et secundum multitudinem miserationum tuarum, dele iniquitatem meam.
4. Amplius lava me ab iniquitate mea, et a peccato meo munda me.
5. Quoniam iniquitatem meam ego cognosco, et peccatum meum contra me est semper.
6. Tibi soli peccavi, et malum coram te feci; ut justificeris in sermonibus tuis, et vincas cum judicaris.
7. Ecce enim in iniquitatibus conceptus sum, et in peccatis concepit me mater mea.
8. Ecce enim veritatem dilexisti; incerta et occulta sapientiæ tuæ manifestasti mihi.
9. Asperges me hyssopo, et mundabor; lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.
10. Auditui meo dabis gaudium et lætitiam, et exsultabunt ossa humiliata.
11. Averte faciem tuam a peccatis meis, et omnes iniquitates meas dele.
12. Cor mundum crea in me, Deus, et spiritum rectum innova in visceribus meis.
13. Ne projicias me a facie tua, et spiritum sanctum tuum ne auferas a me.
14. Redde mihi lætitiam salutaris tui, et spiritu principali confirma me.
15. Docebo iniquos vias tuas, et impii ad te convertentur.
16. Libera me de sanguinibus, Deus, Deus salutis meæ, et exsultabit lingua mea justitiam tuam.
17. Domine, labia mea aperies, et os meum annuntiabit laudem tuam.
18. Quoniam si voluisses sacrificium, dedissem utique; holocaustis non delectaberis.
19. Sacrificium Deo spiritus contribulatus; cor contritum et humiliatum, Deus, non despicies.
20. Benigne fac, Domine, in bona voluntate tua Sion, ut ædificentur muri Jerusalem.
21. Tunc acceptabis sacrificium justitiæ, oblationes et holocausta; tunc imponent super altare tuum vitulos.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 1850: The Definition of Sin ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 431: Jesus ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 298: The Creator ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1428: The Conversion of the Baptized ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2100: "Him Only Shall You Serve" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “The Holy Spirit is the mysterious light that makes us see our sins and God's mercy.” — St. John Vianney, Catechism on the Holy Spirit, c. 1850 (On this theme: verse 3)
- “Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.” — St. John Vianney, Catechism on Prayer, c. 1850 (On this theme: verse 7)
- “Let us use fasting to make up for what we have lost by despising others. Let us offer our souls in sacrifice by means of fasting.” — St. Peter Chrysologus, Sermon 43, c. 440 (On this theme: verse 17)

## Read at Mass (US)

- Wed, Feb 10, 2027: Ash Wednesday — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 12-13, 14 and 17
- Fri, Feb 12, 2027: Friday after Ash Wednesday — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 18-19
- Wed, Feb 17, 2027: Wednesday of the First Week in Lent — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19
- Thu, Feb 18, 2027: Thursday of the First Week in Lent — Verse before the Gospel, Psalm 51:12a, 14a

15 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).