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title: "Psalm 51 (52) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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# Psalm 51 (52)

Psalm 51 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 52 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 11 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Quid gloriaris. David condemneth the wickedness of Doeg, and foretelleth his destruction.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 51 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Unto the end. The understanding of David.
2. When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul, David went to the house of Ahimelech.
3. Why do you glory in malice, you who are powerful in iniquity?
4. All day long your tongue thinks up injustice. Like a sharp razor, you have wrought deceit.
5. You have loved malice above goodness, and iniquity more than speaking righteousness.
6. You have loved all precipitous words, you deceitful tongue.
7. Because of this, God will destroy you in the end. He will pull you up, and he will remove you from your tabernacle and your root from the land of the living.
8. The just will see and be afraid, and they will laugh over him, and say:
9. “Behold the man who did not set God as his helper. But he hoped in the multitude of his riches, and so he prevailed in his emptiness.”
10. But I, like a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God unto eternity, and forever and ever.
11. I will confess to you forever, because you have accomplished it. And I will wait on your name, for it is good in the sight of your saints.

## Psalm 51 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In finem. Intellectus David,
2. cum venit Doëg Idumæus, et nuntiavit Sauli: Venit David in domum Achimelech.
3. Quid gloriaris in malitia, qui potens es in iniquitate?
4. Tota die injustitiam cogitavit lingua tua; sicut novacula acuta fecisti dolum.
5. Dilexisti malitiam super benignitatem; iniquitatem magis quam loqui æquitatem.
6. Dilexisti omnia verba præcipitationis; lingua dolosa.
7. Propterea Deus destruet te in finem; evellet te, et emigrabit te de tabernaculo tuo, et radicem tuam de terra viventium.
8. Videbunt justi, et timebunt; et super eum ridebunt, et dicent:
9. Ecce homo qui non posuit Deum adjutorem suum; sed speravit in multitudine divitiarum suarum, et prævaluit in vanitate sua.
10. Ego autem, sicut oliva fructifera in domo Dei; speravi in misericordia Dei, in æternum et in sæculum sæculi.
11. Confitebor tibi in sæculum, quia fecisti; et exspectabo nomen tuum, quoniam bonum est in conspectu sanctorum tuorum.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Wed, Sep 1, 2027 (computed): Wednesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 52:10, 11

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).