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title: "Psalm 7 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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description: "Psalm 7 in the CPDV, with the Latin Vulgate. Domine, Deus meus. David, trusting in the justice of his cause, prayeth for God's help against his enemies."
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# Psalm 7

Psalm 7 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows has the same number, 7, in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 18 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Domine, Deus meus. David, trusting in the justice of his cause, prayeth for God's help against his enemies.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 7 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. A Psalm of David, which he sang to the Lord because of the words of Cush, the son of Jemini.
2. O Lord, my God, in you I have hoped. Save me from all those who persecute me, and free me:
3. lest at any time, like a lion, he might seize my soul, while there is no one to redeem me, nor any who can save.
4. O Lord, my God, if there is iniquity in my hands, if I have done this:
5. if I have repaid those who rendered evils to me, may I deservedly fall away empty before my enemies:
6. let the enemy pursue my soul, and take hold of it, and trample my life into the earth, and drag down my glory into the dust. Pause
7. Rise up, Lord, in your anger. And be exalted to the borders of my enemies. And rise up, O Lord my God, according to the precept that you commanded,
8. and a congregation of people will surround you. And, because of this, return on high.
9. The Lord judges the people. Judge me, O Lord, according to my justice and according to my innocence within me.
10. The wickedness of sinners will be consumed, and you will direct the just: the examiner of hearts and temperaments is God.
11. Just is my help from the Lord, who saves the upright of heart.
12. God is a just judge, strong and patient. How could he be angry throughout every day?
13. Unless you will be converted, he will brandish his sword. He has extended his bow and made it ready.
14. And with it, he has prepared instruments of death. He has produced his arrows for those on fire.
15. Behold him who has given birth to injustice: he has conceived sorrow and has begotten iniquity.
16. He has opened a pit and enlarged it. And he has fallen into the hole that he made.
17. His sorrow will be turned upon his own head, and his iniquity will descend upon his highest point.
18. I will confess to the Lord according to his justice, and I will sing a psalm to the name of the Lord Most High.

## Psalm 7 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Psalmus David, quem cantavit Domino pro verbis Chusi, filii Jemini.
2. Domine Deus meus, in te speravi; salvum me fac ex omnibus persequentibus me, et libera me:
3. nequando rapiat ut leo animam meam, dum non est qui redimat, neque qui salvum faciat.
4. Domine Deus meus, si feci istud, si est iniquitas in manibus meis,
5. si reddidi retribuentibus mihi mala, decidam merito ab inimicis meis inanis.
6. Persequatur inimicus animam meam, et comprehendat; et conculcet in terra vitam meam, et gloriam meam in pulverem deducat.
7. Exsurge, Domine, in ira tua, et exaltare in finibus inimicorum meorum: et exsurge, Domine Deus meus, in præcepto quod mandasti,
8. et synagoga populorum circumdabit te: et propter hanc in altum regredere:
9. Dominus judicat populos. Judica me, Domine, secundum justitiam meam, et secundum innocentiam meam super me.
10. Consumetur nequitia peccatorum, et diriges justum, scrutans corda et renes, Deus.
11. Justum adjutorium meum a Domino, qui salvos facit rectos corde.
12. Deus judex justus, fortis, et patiens; numquid irascitur per singulos dies?
13. Nisi conversi fueritis, gladium suum vibrabit; arcum suum tetendit, et paravit illum.
14. Et in eo paravit vasa mortis, sagittas suas ardentibus effecit.
15. Ecce parturiit injustitiam; concepit dolorem, et peperit iniquitatem.
16. Lacum aperuit, et effodit eum; et incidit in foveam quam fecit.
17. Convertetur dolor ejus in caput ejus, et in verticem ipsius iniquitas ejus descendet.
18. Confitebor Domino secundum justitiam ejus, et psallam nomini Domini altissimi.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 14: That is, against the persecutors of his saints.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sat, Mar 13, 2027: Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 7:2-3, 9bc-10, 11-12
- Sat, Apr 1, 2028 (computed): Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 7:2-3, 9bc-10, 11-12

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).