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title: "Psalm 81 (82) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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description: "Psalm 81 (Psalm 82 in Hebrew numbering) in the CPDV, with the Latin Vulgate. Deus stetit. An exhortation to judges and men in power."
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# Psalm 81 (82)

Psalm 81 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 82 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 8 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Deus stetit. An exhortation to judges and men in power.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 81 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. A Psalm of Asaph. God has stood in the synagogue of gods, but, in their midst, he decides between gods.
2. How long will you judge unjustly and favor the faces of sinners?
3. Judge for the indigent and the orphan. Do justice to the humble and the poor.
4. Rescue the poor, and free the needy from the hand of the sinner.
5. They did not know and did not understand. They wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth will be moved.
6. I said: You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High.
7. But you will die like men, and you will fall just like one of the princes.
8. Rise up, O God. Judge the earth. For you will inherit it with all the nations.

## Psalm 81 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Psalmus Asaph. Deus stetit in synagoga deorum; in medio autem deos dijudicat.
2. Usquequo judicatis iniquitatem, et facies peccatorum sumitis?
3. Judicate egeno et pupillo; humilem et pauperem justificate.
4. Eripite pauperem, et egenum de manu peccatoris liberate.
5. Nescierunt, neque intellexerunt; in tenebris ambulant: movebuntur omnia fundamenta terræ.
6. Ego dixi: Dii estis, et filii Excelsi omnes.
7. Vos autem sicut homines moriemini, et sicut unus de principibus cadetis.
8. Surge, Deus, judica terram, quoniam tu hæreditabis in omnibus gentibus.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 441: The Only Son of God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Read at Mass (US)

- Wed, Nov 10, 2027 (computed): St. Leo the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 82:3-4, 6-7

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).