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title: "Psalm 89 (90) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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description: "Psalm 89 (Psalm 90 in Hebrew numbering) in the CPDV, with the Latin Vulgate. Domine, refugium. A prayer for the mercy of God: recounting the shortness…"
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# Psalm 89 (90)

Psalm 89 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 90 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 17 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Domine, refugium. A prayer for the mercy of God: recounting the shortness and miseries of the days of man.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 89 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our refuge from generation to generation.
2. Before the mountains became, or the land was formed along with the world: from ages past, even to all ages, you are God.
3. And, lest man be turned aside in humiliation, you have said: Be converted, O sons of men.
4. For a thousand years before your eyes are like the days of yesterday, which have passed by, and they are like a watch of the night,
5. which was held for nothing: so their years shall be.
6. In the morning, he may pass away like grass; in the morning, he may flower and pass away. In the evening, he will fall, and harden, and become dry.
7. For, at your wrath, we have withered away, and we have been disturbed by your fury.
8. You have placed our iniquities in your sight, our age in the illumination of your countenance.
9. For all our days have faded away, and at your wrath, we have fainted. Our years will be considered to be like a spider’s web.
10. The days of our years in them are seventy years. But in the powerful, they are eighty years, and more of these are with hardship and sorrow. For mildness has overwhelmed us, and we shall be corrected.
11. Who knows the power of your wrath? And, before fear, can your wrath
12. be numbered? So make known your right hand, along with men learned in heart, in wisdom.
13. Return, O Lord, how long? And may you be persuaded on behalf of your servants.
14. We were filled in the morning with your mercy, and we exulted and delighted all our days.
15. We have been rejoicing, because of the days in which you humbled us, because of the years in which we saw evils.
16. Look down upon your servants and upon their works, and direct their sons.
17. And may the splendor of the Lord our God be upon us. And so, direct the works of our hands over us; direct even the work of our hands.

## Psalm 89 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Oratio Moysi, hominis Dei. Domine, refugium factus es nobis a generatione in generationem.
2. Priusquam montes fierent, aut formaretur terra et orbis, a sæculo et usque in sæculum tu es, Deus.
3. Ne avertas hominem in humilitatem: et dixisti: Convertimini, filii hominum.
4. Quoniam mille anni ante oculos tuos tamquam dies hesterna quæ præteriit: et custodia in nocte
5. quæ pro nihilo habentur, eorum anni erunt.
6. Mane sicut herba transeat; mane floreat, et transeat; vespere decidat, induret, et arescat.
7. Quia defecimus in ira tua, et in furore tuo turbati sumus.
8. Posuisti iniquitates nostras in conspectu tuo; sæculum nostrum in illuminatione vultus tui.
9. Quoniam omnes dies nostri defecerunt, et in ira tua defecimus. Anni nostri sicut aranea meditabuntur;
10. dies annorum nostrorum in ipsis septuaginta anni. Si autem in potentatibus octoginta anni, et amplius eorum labor et dolor; quoniam supervenit mansuetudo, et corripiemur.
11. Quis novit potestatem iræ tuæ, et præ timore tuo iram tuam
12. dinumerare? Dexteram tuam sic notam fac, et eruditos corde in sapientia.
13. Convertere, Domine; usquequo? et deprecabilis esto super servos tuos.
14. Repleti sumus mane misericordia tua; et exsultavimus, et delectati sumus omnibus diebus nostris.
15. Lætati sumus pro diebus quibus nos humiliasti; annis quibus vidimus mala.
16. Respice in servos tuos et in opera tua, et dirige filios eorum.
17. Et sit splendor Domini Dei nostri super nos, et opera manuum nostrarum dirige super nos, et opus manuum nostrarum dirige.

## The saints

- “Keep death daily before your eyes.” — St. Benedict of Nursia, Rule of St. Benedict, ch. 4, c. 530 (On this theme: verse 12)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 3: Suffer him not quite to perish from thee, since thou art pleased to call upon him to be converted to thee.
- Verse 9: As frail and weak as a spider's web; and miserable withal, whilst like a spider we spend our bowels in weaving webs to catch flies.
- Verse 10: God's mildness corrects us; inasmuch as he deals kindly with us, in shortening the days of this miserable life; and so weaning our affections from all its transitory enjoyments, and teaching us true wisdom.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Thu, Aug 26, 2027 (computed): Thursday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 90:3-5a, 12-13, 14 and 17
- Sun, Oct 10, 2027 (computed): Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 90:12-13, 14-15, 16-17
- Tue, Jun 6, 2028 (computed): Tuesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 90:2, 3-4, 10, 14 and 16
- Sun, Sep 10, 2028 (computed): Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14 and 17

2 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

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).