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title: "Psalm 6 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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description: "Psalm 6 in the CPDV, with the Latin Vulgate. Domine, ne in furore. A prayer of a penitent sinner, under the scourge of God. The first penitential psalm."
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# Psalm 6

Psalm 6 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows has the same number, 6, 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.

> Domine, ne in furore. A prayer of a penitent sinner, under the scourge of God. The first penitential psalm.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 6 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. In parts according to verses. A Psalm of David. For the octave.
2. O Lord, do not rebuke me in your fury, nor chastise me in your anger.
3. Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am weak. Heal me, Lord, for my bones have become disturbed,
4. and my soul has been very troubled. But as for you, Lord, when?
5. Turn to me, Lord, and rescue my soul. Save me because of your mercy.
6. For there is no one in death who would be mindful of you. And who will confess to you in Hell?
7. I have labored in my groaning. Every night, with my tears, I will wash my bed and drench my blanket.
8. My eye has been troubled by rage. I have grown old among all my enemies.
9. Scatter before me, all you who work iniquity, for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.
10. The Lord has heard my supplication. The Lord has accepted my prayer.
11. Let all my enemies be ashamed and together be greatly troubled. May they be converted and become ashamed very quickly.

## Psalm 6 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In finem, in carminibus. Psalmus David. Pro octava.
2. Domine, ne in furore tuo arguas me, neque in ira tua corripias me.
3. Miserere mei, Domine, quoniam infirmus sum; sana me, Domine, quoniam conturbata sunt ossa mea.
4. Et anima mea turbata est valde; sed tu, Domine, usquequo?
5. Convertere, Domine, et eripe animam meam; salvum me fac propter misericordiam tuam.
6. Quoniam non est in morte qui memor sit tui; in inferno autem quis confitebitur tibi?
7. Laboravi in gemitu meo; lavabo per singulas noctes lectum meum: lacrimis meis stratum meum rigabo.
8. Turbatus est a furore oculus meus; inveteravi inter omnes inimicos meos.
9. Discedite a me omnes qui operamini iniquitatem, quoniam exaudivit Dominus vocem fletus mei.
10. Exaudivit Dominus deprecationem meam; Dominus orationem meam suscepit.
11. Erubescant, et conturbentur vehementer, omnes inimici mei; convertantur, et erubescant valde velociter.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 1502: Its Foundations in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 633: Christ Descended Into Hell ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: “For the octave” … That is, to be sung on an instrument of eight strings. St. Augustine understands it mystically, of the last resurrection, and the world to come; which is, as it were, the octave, or eighth day, after the seven days of this mortal life: and for this octave, sinners must dispose themselves, like David, by bewailing their sins, whilst they are here upon earth.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).