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# Psalm 63 (64)

Psalm 63 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 64 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.

> Exaudi Deus orationem. A prayer in affliction, with confidence in God that he will bring to nought the machinations of persecutors.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 63 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Unto the end. A Psalm of David.
2. Hear, O God, my prayer of supplication. Rescue my soul from the fear of the enemy.
3. You have protected me from the assembly of the malignant, from a multitude of workers of iniquity.
4. For they have sharpened their tongues like a sword; they have formed their bow into a bitter thing,
5. so that they may shoot arrows from hiding at the immaculate.
6. They will suddenly shoot arrows at him, and they will not be afraid. They are resolute in their wicked talk. They have discussed hidden snares. They have said, “Who will see them?”
7. They have been searching carefully for iniquities. Their exhaustive search has failed. Man will approach with a deep heart,
8. and God will be exalted. The arrows of the little ones have become their wounds,
9. and their tongues have been weakened against them. All those who saw them have been troubled;
10. and every man was afraid. And they announced the works of God, and they understood his acts.
11. The just will rejoice in the Lord, and they will hope in him. And all the upright of heart will be praised.

## Psalm 63 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In finem. Psalmus David.
2. Exaudi, Deus, orationem meam cum deprecor; a timore inimici eripe animam meam.
3. Protexisti me a conventu malignantium, a multitudine operantium iniquitatem.
4. Quia exacuerunt ut gladium linguas suas; intenderunt arcum rem amaram,
5. ut sagittent in occultis immaculatum.
6. Subito sagittabunt eum, et non timebunt; firmaverunt sibi sermonem nequam. Narraverunt ut absconderent laqueos; dixerunt: Quis videbit eos?
7. Scrutati sunt iniquitates; defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio. Accedet homo ad cor altum,
8. et exaltabitur Deus. Sagittæ parvulorum factæ sunt plagæ eorum,
9. et infirmatæ sunt contra eos linguæ eorum. Conturbati sunt omnes qui videbant eos,
10. et timuit omnis homo. Et annuntiaverunt opera Dei, et facta ejus intellexerunt.
11. Lætabitur justus in Domino, et sperabit in eo, et laudabuntur omnes recti corde.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 7: “A deep heart” … That is, crafty, subtle, deep projects and designs; which nevertheless shall not succeed; for God shall be exalted in bringing them to nought by his wisdom and power.
- Verse 8: That is, the wounds, stripes, or blows, they seek to inflict upon the just, are but like the weak efforts of children's arrows, which can do no execution: and their tongues, that is, their speeches against them come to nothing.

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