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title: "Psalm 69 (70) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/69/
description: "Psalm 69 (Psalm 70 in Hebrew numbering) in the CPDV, with the Latin Vulgate. Deus in adjutorium. A prayer in persecution."
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# Psalm 69 (70)

Psalm 69 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 70 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 6 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Deus in adjutorium. A prayer in persecution.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 69 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Unto the end. A Psalm of David, in remembrance that the Lord had saved him.
2. O God, reach out to help me. O Lord, hasten to assist me.
3. May those who seek my soul be confounded and awed.
4. May those who wish evils upon me be turned back and blush with shame. May they be turned away immediately, blushing with shame, who say to me: “Well, well.”
5. Let all who seek you exult and rejoice in you, and let those who love your salvation forever say: “The Lord be magnified.”
6. I am truly destitute and poor. O God, assist me. You are my helper and my deliverer. O Lord, do not delay.

## Psalm 69 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In finem. Psalmus David in rememorationem, quod salvum fecerit eum Dominus.
2. Deus, in adjutorium meum intende; Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina.
3. Confundantur, et revereantur, qui quærunt animam meam.
4. Avertantur retrorsum, et erubescant, qui volunt mihi mala; avertantur statim erubescentes qui dicunt mihi: Euge, euge!
5. Exsultent et lætentur in te omnes qui quærunt te; et dicant semper: Magnificetur Dominus, qui diligunt salutare tuum.
6. Ego vero egenus et pauper sum; Deus, adjuva me. Adjutor meus et liberator meus es tu; Domine, ne moreris.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 4: Euge, euge. St. Jerome renders it, vah, vah! which is the voice of one insulting and deriding. Some understand it as a detestation of deceitful flatterers.

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