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# Psalm 93 (94)

Psalm 93 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 94 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 23 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Deus ultionum. God shall judge and punish the oppressors of his people. A psalm for David himself on the fourth day of the week.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 93 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. A Psalm of David himself. The Fourth Sabbath. The Lord is the God of retribution. The God of retribution acts in order to deliver.
2. Lift yourself up, for you judge the earth. Repay the arrogant with retribution.
3. How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners glory?
4. How long will they utter and speak iniquity? How long will all who work injustice speak out?
5. They have humiliated your people, O Lord, and they have harassed your inheritance.
6. They have executed the widow and the new arrival, and they have slaughtered the orphan.
7. And they have said, “The Lord will not see, nor will the God of Jacob understand.”
8. Understand, you senseless ones among the people. And be wise at last, you foolish ones.
9. He who formed the ear, will he not hear? And he who forged the eye, does he not look closely?
10. He who chastises nations, he who teaches man knowledge, will he not rebuke?
11. The Lord knows the thoughts of men: that these are in vain.
12. Blessed is the man whom you will instruct, O Lord. And you will teach him from your law.
13. So may you soothe him from the evil days, until a pit may be dug for sinners.
14. For the Lord will not drive away his people, and he will not abandon his inheritance,
15. even until the time when justice is being converted into judgment, and when those who are close to justice are all those who are upright of heart.
16. Who will rise up with me against the malignant? Or who will stand with me against the workers of iniquity?
17. Except that the Lord assisted me, my soul almost would have dwelt in Hell.
18. If ever I said, “My foot is slipping,” then your mercy, O Lord, assisted me.
19. According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, your consolations have given joy to my soul.
20. Does the seat of iniquity adhere to you, you who contrive hardship within a commandment?
21. They will hunt down the soul of the just, and they will condemn innocent blood.
22. And the Lord has been made into a refuge for me, and my God into the assistance of my hope.
23. And he will repay them their iniquity, and he will destroy them in their malice. The Lord our God will utterly destroy them.

## Psalm 93 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Psalmus ipsi David, quarta sabbati. Deus ultionum Dominus; Deus ultionum libere egit.
2. Exaltare, qui judicas terram; redde retributionem superbis.
3. Usquequo peccatores, Domine, usquequo peccatores gloriabuntur;
4. effabuntur et loquentur iniquitatem; loquentur omnes qui operantur injustitiam?
5. Populum tuum, Domine, humiliaverunt, et hæreditatem tuam vexaverunt.
6. Viduam et advenam interfecerunt, et pupillos occiderunt.
7. Et dixerunt: Non videbit Dominus, nec intelliget Deus Jacob.
8. Intelligite, insipientes in populo; et stulti, aliquando sapite.
9. Qui plantavit aurem non audiet? aut qui finxit oculum non considerat?
10. Qui corripit gentes non arguet, qui docet hominem scientiam?
11. Dominus scit cogitationes hominum, quoniam vanæ sunt.
12. Beatus homo quem tu erudieris, Domine, et de lege tua docueris eum:
13. ut mitiges ei a diebus malis, donec fodiatur peccatori fovea.
14. Quia non repellet Dominus plebem suam, et hæreditatem suam non derelinquet,
15. quoadusque justitia convertatur in judicium: et qui juxta illam, omnes qui recto sunt corde.
16. Quis consurget mihi adversus malignantes? aut quis stabit mecum adversus operantes iniquitatem?
17. Nisi quia Dominus adjuvit me, paulominus habitasset in inferno anima mea.
18. Si dicebam: Motus est pes meus: misericordia tua, Domine, adjuvabat me.
19. Secundum multitudinem dolorum meorum in corde meo, consolationes tuæ lætificaverunt animam meam.
20. Numquid adhæret tibi sedes iniquitatis, qui fingis laborem in præcepto?
21. Captabunt in animam justi, et sanguinem innocentem condemnabunt.
22. Et factus est mihi Dominus in refugium, et Deus meus in adjutorium spei meæ.
23. Et reddet illis iniquitatem ipsorum, et in malitia eorum disperdet eos: disperdet illos Dominus Deus noster.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 13: That thou mayst mitigate the sorrows, to which he is exposed, during the short and evil days of his mortality.
- Verse 15: By being put in execution; which will be agreeable to all the upright in heart.
- Verse 20: That is, wilt thou, O God, who art always just, admit of the seat of iniquity: that is, of injustice, or unjust judges, to have any partnership with thee? Thou who framest, or makest, labour in commandment, that is, thou who obligest us to labour with all diligence to keep thy commandments.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sat, Oct 30, 2027 (computed): Saturday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 94:12-13a, 14-15, 17-18
- Tue, Feb 15, 2028 (computed): Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 94:12-13a, 14-15, 18-19
- Wed, Jul 19, 2028 (computed): Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 94:5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 14-15

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).