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# Psalm 83 (84)

Psalm 83 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 84 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 13 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Quam dilecta. The soul aspireth after heaven; rejoicing in the mean time, in being in the communion of God's church upon earth.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 83 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm to the sons of Korah.
2. How beloved are your tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!
3. My soul longs and faints for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have exulted in the living God.
4. For even the sparrow has found a home for himself, and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young: your altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God.
5. Blessed are those who dwell in your house, O Lord. They will praise you from age to age.
6. Blessed is the man whose help is from you. In his heart, he is disposed to ascend
7. from the valley of tears, from the place which he has determined.
8. For even the lawgiver will provide a blessing; they will go from virtue to virtue. The God of gods will be seen in Zion.
9. O Lord, God of hosts, hear my prayer. Pay attention, O God of Jacob.
10. O God, gaze upon our protector, and look upon the face of your Christ.
11. For one day in your courts is better than thousands elsewhere. I have chosen to be lowly in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.
12. For God loves mercy and truth. The Lord will give grace and glory.
13. He will not withhold good things from those who walk in innocence. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man who hopes in you.

## Psalm 83 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In finem, pro torcularibus filiis Core. Psalmus.
2. Quam dilecta tabernacula tua, Domine virtutum!
3. Concupiscit, et deficit anima mea in atria Domini; cor meum et caro mea exsultaverunt in Deum vivum.
4. Etenim passer invenit sibi domum, et turtur nidum sibi, ubi ponat pullos suos: altaria tua, Domine virtutum, rex meus, et Deus meus.
5. Beati qui habitant in domo tua, Domine; in sæcula sæculorum laudabunt te.
6. Beatus vir cujus est auxilium abs te: ascensiones in corde suo disposuit,
7. in valle lacrimarum, in loco quem posuit.
8. Etenim benedictionem dabit legislator; ibunt de virtute in virtutem: videbitur Deus deorum in Sion.
9. Domine Deus virtutum, exaudi orationem meam; auribus percipe, Deus Jacob.
10. Protector noster, aspice, Deus, et respice in faciem christi tui.
11. Quia melior est dies una in atriis tuis super millia; elegi abjectus esse in domo Dei mei magis quam habitare in tabernaculis peccatorum.
12. Quia misericordiam et veritatem diligit Deus: gratiam et gloriam dabit Dominus.
13. Non privabit bonis eos qui ambulant in innocentia: Domine virtutum, beatus homo qui sperat in te.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 1770: Passions and Moral Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “No one can be made happy unless he rise above himself, not by an ascent of the body, but of the heart.” — St. Bonaventure, The Journey of the Mind to God, prologue, 1259 (On this theme: verse 5)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 6: Ascensiones in corde suo disposuit. As by steps men ascended to the temple of God situated on a hill; so the good Christian ascends towards the eternal temple by certain steps of virtue disposed or ordered within the heart: and this whilst he lives as yet in the body, in this vale of tears, the place which man hath set: that is, which he hath brought himself to: being cast out of paradise for his sin.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Fri, Nov 27, 2026: Friday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 84:3, 4, 5-6a, 8a
- Fri, Mar 19, 2027: St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary — Verse before the Gospel, Psalm 84:5
- Thu, Jul 29, 2027 (computed): Sts. Martha, Mary, and Lazarus — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 84:3, 4, 5-6a and 8a, 11
- Tue, Feb 8, 2028 (computed): Tuesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 84:3, 4, 5 and 10, 11

4 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).