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# Psalm 68 (69)

Psalm 68 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 69 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 37 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Salvum me fac, Deus. Christ in his passion declareth the greatness of his sufferings, and the malice of his persecutors the Jews; and foretelleth their reprobation.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 68 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Unto the end. For those who will be changed: of David.
2. Save me, O God, for the waters have entered, even to my soul.
3. I have become stuck in a deep quagmire, and there is no firm footing. I have arrived at the height of the sea, and a tempest has overwhelmed me.
4. I have endured hardships, while crying out. My jaws have become hoarse; my eyes have failed. Meanwhile, I hope in my God.
5. Those who hate me without cause have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. My enemies, who persecuted me unjustly, have been strengthened. Then I was required to pay for what I did not take.
6. O God, you know my foolishness, and my offenses have not been hidden from you.
7. Let those who wait for you, O Lord, the Lord of hosts, not be shamed in me. Let those who seek you, O God of Israel, not be confounded over me.
8. For because of you, I have endured reproach; confusion has covered my face.
9. I have become a stranger to my brothers and a sojourner to the sons of my mother.
10. For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen upon me.
11. And I covered my soul with fasting, and it has become a reproach to me.
12. And I put on a haircloth as my garment, and I became a parable to them.
13. Those who sat at the gate spoke against me, and those who drank wine made me their song.
14. But as for me, truly, my prayer is to you, O Lord. This time has pleased you well, O God. In the multitude of your mercy, in the truth of your salvation, hear me.
15. Rescue me from the quagmire, so that I may not become trapped. Free me from those who hate me and from deep waters.
16. Do not allow the tempest of water to submerge me, nor the deep to absorb me. And do not allow the well to close in on me.
17. Hear me, O Lord, for your mercy is kind. Look upon me, according to the fullness of your compassion.
18. And do not turn your face away from your servant, for I am in trouble: heed me quickly.
19. Attend to my soul, and free it. Rescue me, because of my enemies.
20. You know my reproach, and my confusion, and my reverence.
21. All those who trouble me are in your sight; my heart has anticipated reproach and misery. And I sought for one who might grieve together with me, but there was no one, and for one who might console me, and I found no one.
22. And they gave me gall for my food. And in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
23. Let their table be a snare before them, and a retribution, and a scandal.
24. Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and may their back always be crooked.
25. Pour out your indignation upon them, and may the fury of your anger take hold of them.
26. May their dwelling place be deserted, and may there be no one who dwells in their tabernacles.
27. For they persecuted whomever you struck. And they have added to the grief of my wounds.
28. Assign an iniquity upon their iniquity, and may they not enter into your justice.
29. Delete them from the Book of the Living, and let them not be written down with the just.
30. I am poor and sorrowful, but your salvation, O God, has taken me up.
31. I will praise the name of God with a canticle, and I will magnify him with praise.
32. And it will please God more than a new calf producing horns and hoofs.
33. Let the poor see and rejoice. Seek God, and your soul will live.
34. For the Lord has heard the poor, and he has not despised his prisoners.
35. Let the heavens and the earth praise him: the sea, and everything that crawls in it.
36. For God will save Zion, and the cities of Judah will be built up. And they will dwell there, and they will acquire it by inheritance.
37. And the offspring of his servants will possess it; and those who love his name will dwell in it.

## Psalm 68 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In finem, pro iis qui commutabuntur. David.
2. Salvum me fac, Deus, quoniam intraverunt aquæ usque ad animam meam.
3. Infixus sum in limo profundi et non est substantia. Veni in altitudinem maris, et tempestas demersit me.
4. Laboravi clamans, raucæ factæ sunt fauces meæ; defecerunt oculi mei, dum spero in Deum meum.
5. Multiplicati sunt super capillos capitis mei qui oderunt me gratis. Confortati sunt qui persecuti sunt me inimici mei injuste; quæ non rapui, tunc exsolvebam.
6. Deus, tu scis insipientiam meam; et delicta mea a te non sunt abscondita.
7. Non erubescant in me qui exspectant te, Domine, Domine virtutum; non confundantur super me qui quærunt te, Deus Israël.
8. Quoniam propter te sustinui opprobrium; operuit confusio faciem meam.
9. Extraneus factus sum fratribus meis, et peregrinus filiis matris meæ.
10. Quoniam zelus domus tuæ comedit me, et opprobria exprobrantium tibi ceciderunt super me.
11. Et operui in jejunio animam meam, et factum est in opprobrium mihi.
12. Et posui vestimentum meum cilicium; et factus sum illis in parabolam.
13. Adversum me loquebantur qui sedebant in porta, et in me psallebant qui bibebant vinum.
14. Ego vero orationem meam ad te, Domine; tempus beneplaciti, Deus. In multitudine misericordiæ tuæ, exaudi me in veritate salutis tuæ.
15. Eripe me de luto, ut non infigar; libera me ab iis qui oderunt me, et de profundis aquarum.
16. Non me demergat tempestas aquæ, neque absorbeat me profundum, neque urgeat super me puteus os suum.
17. Exaudi me, Domine, quoniam benigna est misericordia tua; secundum multitudinem miserationum tuarum respice in me.
18. Et ne avertas faciem tuam a puero tuo; quoniam tribulor, velociter exaudi me.
19. Intende animæ meæ, et libera eam; propter inimicos meos, eripe me.
20. Tu scis improperium meum, et confusionem meam, et reverentiam meam;
21. in conspectu tuo sunt omnes qui tribulant me. Improperium exspectavit cor meum et miseriam: et sustinui qui simul contristaretur, et non fuit; et qui consolaretur, et non inveni.
22. Et dederunt in escam meam fel, et in siti mea potaverunt me aceto.
23. Fiat mensa eorum coram ipsis in laqueum, et in retributiones, et in scandalum.
24. Obscurentur oculi eorum, ne videant, et dorsum eorum semper incurva.
25. Effunde super eos iram tuam, et furor iræ tuæ comprehendat eos.
26. Fiat habitatio eorum deserta, et in tabernaculis eorum non sit qui inhabitet.
27. Quoniam quem tu percussisti persecuti sunt, et super dolorem vulnerum meorum addiderunt.
28. Appone iniquitatem super iniquitatem eorum, et non intrent in justitiam tuam.
29. Deleantur de libro viventium, et cum justis non scribantur.
30. Ego sum pauper et dolens; salus tua, Deus, suscepit me.
31. Laudabo nomen Dei cum cantico, et magnificabo eum in laude:
32. et placebit Deo super vitulum novellum, cornua producentem et ungulas.
33. Videant pauperes, et lætentur; quærite Deum, et vivet anima vestra:
34. quoniam exaudivit pauperes Dominus, et vinctos suos non despexit.
35. Laudent illum cæli et terra; mare, et omnia reptilia in eis.
36. Quoniam Deus salvam faciet Sion, et ædificabuntur civitates Juda, et inhabitabunt ibi, et hæreditate acquirent eam.
37. Et semen servorum ejus possidebit eam; et qui diligunt nomen ejus habitabunt in ea.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 584: Jesus and Israel ([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: A psalm for Christian converts, to remember the passion of Christ.
- Verse 2: “The waters” … Of afflictions and sorrows. My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Matt. 26. 38.
- Verse 5: Christ in his passion made restitution of what he had not taken away, by suffering the punishment due to our sins, and so repairing the injury we had done to God.
- Verse 6: which my enemies impute to me: or the follies and sins of men, which I have taken upon myself.
- Verse 23: “Let their table” … What here follows in the style of an imprecation, is a prophecy of the wretched state to which the Jews should be reduced in punishment of their wilful obstinacy.
- Verse 36: The catholic church. The cities of Juda, etc., her places of worship, which shall be established throughout the world. And there, viz., in this church of Christ, shall his servants dwell, etc.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Wed, Mar 24, 2027: Wednesday of Holy Week — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 69:8-10, 21-22, 31 and 33-34
- Tue, Jul 13, 2027 (computed): Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 69:3, 14, 30-31, 33-34
- Sat, Oct 2, 2027 (computed): Holy Guardian Angels — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 69:33-35, 36-37
- Wed, Apr 12, 2028 (computed): Wednesday of Holy Week — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 69:8-10, 21-22, 31 and 33-34

3 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). 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).