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# Psalm 59 (60)

Psalm 59 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 60 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 14 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Deus, repulisti nos. After many afflictions, the church of Christ shall prevail.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 59 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Unto the end. For those who will be changed, with the inscription of a title, of David himself, for instruction:
2. when he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal, and Joab turned back and struck Idumea, in the valley of the salt pits, twelve thousand men.
3. O God, you have rejected us, and you have ruined us. You became angry, and yet you have been merciful to us.
4. You have moved the earth, and you have disturbed it. Heal its breaches, for it has been moved.
5. You have revealed to your people difficulties. You have made us drink the wine of remorse.
6. You have given a warning sign to those who fear you, so that they may flee from before the face of the bow, so that your beloved may be delivered.
7. Save me with your right hand, and hear me.
8. God has spoken in his holy place: I will rejoice, and I will divide Shechem, and I will measure the steep valley of the tabernacles.
9. Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. And Ephraim is the strength of my head. Judah is my king.
10. Moab is the cooking pot of my hope. Into Idumea, I will extend my shoe. To me, the foreigners have been made subject.
11. Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will lead me all the way to Idumea?
12. Will not you, O God, who has rejected us? And will not you, O God, go out with our armies?
13. Grant us help from tribulation. For salvation from man is empty.
14. In God, we will act virtuously. And those who trouble us, he will lead to nothing.

## Psalm 59 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In finem, pro his qui immutabuntur, in tituli inscriptionem ipsi David, in doctrinam,
2. cum succendit Mesopotamiam Syriæ et Sobal, et convertit Joab, et percussit Idumæam in valle Salinarum duodecim millia.
3. Deus, repulisti nos, et destruxisti nos; iratus es, et misertus es nobis.
4. Commovisti terram, et conturbasti eam; sana contritiones ejus, quia commota est.
5. Ostendisti populo tuo dura; potasti nos vino compunctionis.
6. Dedisti metuentibus te significationem, ut fugiant a facie arcus; ut liberentur dilecti tui.
7. Salvum fac dextera tua, et exaudi me.
8. Deus locutus est in sancto suo: lætabor, et partibor Sichimam; et convallem tabernaculorum metibor.
9. Meus est Galaad, et meus est Manasses; et Ephraim fortitudo capitis mei. Juda rex meus;
10. Moab olla spei meæ. In Idumæam extendam calceamentum meum: mihi alienigenæ subditi sunt.
11. Quis deducet me in civitatem munitam? quis deducet me usque in Idumæam?
12. nonne tu, Deus, qui repulisti nos? et non egredieris, Deus, in virtutibus nostris?
13. Da nobis auxilium de tribulatione, quia vana salus hominis.
14. In Deo faciemus virtutem; et ipse ad nihilum deducet tribulantes nos.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 10: Or my watering pot. That is, a vessel for meaner uses, by being reduced to serve me, even in the meanest employments.-- Ibid.
- Verse 10: “Foreigners” … So the Philistines are called, who had no kindred with the Israelites; whereas the Edomites, Moabites, etc., were originally of the same family.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Mon, Jun 26, 2028 (computed): Monday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 60:3, 4-5, 12-13

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).