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title: "Psalm 86 (87) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/86/
description: "Psalm 86 (Psalm 87 in Hebrew numbering) in the CPDV, with the Latin Vulgate. Fundamenta ejus. The glory of the church of Christ."
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# Psalm 86 (87)

Psalm 86 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 87 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 7 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Fundamenta ejus. The glory of the church of Christ.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 86 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. A Canticle Psalm to the sons of Korah. Its foundations are in the holy mountains:
2. the Lord loves the gates of Zion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.
3. Glorious things are being said of you, O City of God.
4. I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold, the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these have been there.
5. Will not Zion say that this man and that man were born in her? And the Most High himself has founded her.
6. The Lord will explain, in the writings of peoples and of leaders, about those who have been in her.
7. For so the dwelling place within you is with all rejoicing.

## Psalm 86 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Filiis Core. Psalmus cantici. Fundamenta ejus in montibus sanctis;
2. diligit Dominus portas Sion super omnia tabernacula Jacob.
3. Gloriosa dicta sunt de te, civitas Dei!
4. Memor ero Rahab et Babylonis, scientium me; ecce alienigenæ, et Tyrus, et populus Æthiopum, hi fuerunt illic.
5. Numquid Sion dicet: Homo et homo natus est in ea, et ipse fundavit eam Altissimus?
6. Dominus narrabit in scripturis populorum et principum, horum qui fuerunt in ea.
7. Sicut lætantium omnium habitatio est in te.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: “The holy mountains” … The apostles and prophets. Eph. 2. 20.
- Verse 4: “Rahab” … Egypt, etc. To this Sion, which is the church of God, many shall resort from all nations.
- Verse 5: The meaning is, that Sion, viz., the church, shall not only be able to commemorate this or that particular person of renown born in her, but also to glory in great multitudes of people and princes of her communion; who have been foretold in the writings of the prophets, and registered in the writings of the apostles.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, Apr 20, 2027: Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 87:1b-3, 4-5, 6-7
- Mon, May 17, 2027: Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 87:1-2, 3 and 5, 6-7
- Tue, Sep 28, 2027 (computed): Tuesday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 87:1b-3, 4-5, 6-7
- Tue, May 9, 2028 (computed): Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 87:1b-3, 4-5, 6-7

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).