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title: "Psalm 71 (72) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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description: "Psalm 71 (Psalm 72 in Hebrew numbering) in the CPDV, with the Latin Vulgate. Deus, judicium tuum. A prophecy of the coming of Christ, and of his kingdom…"
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# Psalm 71 (72)

Psalm 71 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 72 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 20 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Deus, judicium tuum. A prophecy of the coming of Christ, and of his kingdom: prefigured by Solomon and his happy reign.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 71 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. A Psalm according to Solomon.
2. Give your judgment, O God, to the king, and your justice to the king’s son, to judge your people with justice and your poor with judgment.
3. Let the mountains take up peace for the people, and the hills, justice.
4. He will judge the poor of the people, and he will bring salvation to the sons of the poor. And he will humble the false accuser.
5. And he will remain, with the sun and before the moon, from generation to generation.
6. He will descend like rain upon fleece, and like showers showering upon the earth.
7. In his days, justice will rise like the sun, with abundance of peace, until the moon is taken away.
8. And he will rule from sea to sea and from the river to the limits of the whole world.
9. In his sight, the Ethiopians will fall prostrate, and his enemies will lick the ground.
10. The kings of Tarshish and the islands will offer gifts. The kings of Arabia and of Seba will bring gifts.
11. And all the kings of the earth shall adore him. All nations will serve him.
12. For he will free the poor from the powerful, and the poor one who has no helper.
13. He will spare the poor and the indigent, and he will bring salvation to the souls of the poor.
14. He will redeem their souls from usuries and from iniquity, and their names shall be honorable in his sight.
15. And he will live, and to him will be given from the gold of Arabia, and by him they will always adore. They will bless him all day long.
16. And there will be a firmament on earth, at the summits of mountains: its fruits will be extolled above Lebanon, and those of the city will flourish like the grass of the earth.
17. May his name be blessed forever; may his name remain before the sun. And all the tribes of the earth will be blessed in him. All nations will magnify him.
18. Blessed is the Lord, God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things.
19. And blessed is the name of his majesty in eternity. And all the earth will be filled with his majesty. Amen. Amen.
20. The praises of David, the son of Jesse, have reached an end.

## Psalm 71 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Psalmus, in Salomonem.
2. Deus, judicium tuum regi da, et justitiam tuam filio regis; judicare populum tuum in justitia, et pauperes tuos in judicio.
3. Suscipiant montes pacem populo, et colles justitiam.
4. Judicabit pauperes populi, et salvos faciet filios pauperum, et humiliabit calumniatorem.
5. Et permanebit cum sole, et ante lunam, in generatione et generationem.
6. Descendet sicut pluvia in vellus, et sicut stillicidia stillantia super terram.
7. Orietur in diebus ejus justitia, et abundantia pacis, donec auferatur luna.
8. Et dominabitur a mari usque ad mare, et a flumine usque ad terminos orbis terrarum.
9. Coram illo procident Æthiopes, et inimici ejus terram lingent.
10. Reges Tharsis et insulæ munera offerent; reges Arabum et Saba dona adducent:
11. et adorabunt eum omnes reges terræ; omnes gentes servient ei.
12. Quia liberabit pauperem a potente, et pauperem cui non erat adjutor.
13. Parcet pauperi et inopi, et animas pauperum salvas faciet.
14. Ex usuris et iniquitate redimet animas eorum, et honorabile nomen eorum coram illo.
15. Et vivet, et dabitur ei de auro Arabiæ; et adorabunt de ipso semper, tota die benedicent ei.
16. Et erit firmamentum in terra in summis montium; superextolletur super Libanum fructus ejus, et florebunt de civitate sicut fœnum terræ.
17. Sit nomen ejus benedictum in sæcula; ante solem permanet nomen ejus. Et benedicentur in ipso omnes tribus terræ; omnes gentes magnificabunt eum.
18. Benedictus Dominus Deus Israël, qui facit mirabilia solus.
19. Et benedictum nomen majestatis ejus in æternum, et replebitur majestate ejus omnis terra. Fiat, fiat.
20. Defecerunt laudes David, filii Jesse.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 16: This may be understood of the church of Christ, ever firm and visible: and of the flourishing condition of its congregation.
- Verse 20: By this it appears that this psalm, though placed here, was in order of time the last of those which David composed.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, Dec 1, 2026: Tuesday of the First Week of Advent — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17
- Thu, Dec 17, 2026: Thursday of the Third Week of Advent — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 72:1-2, 3-4ab, 7-8, 17
- Fri, Dec 18, 2026: Friday of the Third Week of Advent — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 72:1-2, 12-13, 18-19
- Sun, Jan 3, 2027: The Epiphany of the Lord — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13

12 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). 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).