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# Psalm 95 (96)

Psalm 95 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 96 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.

> Cantate Domino. An exhortation to praise God for the coming of Christ and his kingdom.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 95 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. A Canticle of David himself, when the house was built after the captivity. Sing to the Lord a new song. Sing to the Lord, all the earth.
2. Sing to the Lord and bless his name. Announce his salvation from day to day.
3. Announce his glory among the Gentiles, his miracles among all peoples.
4. For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised. He is terrible, beyond all gods.
5. For all the gods of the Gentiles are demons, but the Lord made the heavens.
6. Confession and beauty are in his sight. Sanctity and magnificence are in his sanctuary.
7. Bring to the Lord, you natives of the nations, bring to the Lord glory and honor.
8. Bring to the Lord glory for his name. Lift up sacrifices, and enter into his courts.
9. Adore the Lord in his holy court. Let the entire earth be shaken before his face.
10. Say among the Gentiles: The Lord has reigned. For he has even corrected the whole world, which will not be shaken. He will judge the peoples with fairness.
11. Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth exult; let the sea and all its fullness be moved.
12. The fields and all the things that are in them will be glad. Then all the trees of the forest will rejoice
13. before the face of the Lord: for he arrives. For he arrives to judge the earth. He will judge the whole world with fairness and the peoples with his truth.

## Psalm 95 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Canticum ipsi David, quando domus ædificabatur post captivitatem. Cantate Domino canticum novum; cantate Domino omnis terra.
2. Cantate Domino, et benedicite nomini ejus; annuntiate de die in diem salutare ejus.
3. Annuntiate inter gentes gloriam ejus; in omnibus populis mirabilia ejus.
4. Quoniam magnus Dominus, et laudabilis nimis: terribilis est super omnes deos.
5. Quoniam omnes dii gentium dæmonia; Dominus autem cælos fecit.
6. Confessio et pulchritudo in conspectu ejus; sanctimonia et magnificentia in sanctificatione ejus.
7. Afferte Domino, patriæ gentium, afferte Domino gloriam et honorem;
8. afferte Domino gloriam nomini ejus. Tollite hostias, et introite in atria ejus;
9. adorate Dominum in atrio sancto ejus. Commoveatur a facie ejus universa terra;
10. dicite in gentibus, quia Dominus regnavit. Etenim correxit orbem terræ, qui non commovebitur; judicabit populos in æquitate.
11. Lætentur cæli, et exsultet terra; commoveatur mare et plenitudo ejus;
12. gaudebunt campi, et omnia quæ in eis sunt. Tunc exsultabunt omnia ligna silvarum
13. a facie Domini, quia venit, quoniam venit judicare terram. Judicabit orbem terræ in æquitate, et populos in veritate sua.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2143: The Name of the Lord is Holy ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: “When the house was built” … Alluding to that time, and then ordered to be sung: but principally relating to the building of the church of Christ, after our redemption from the captivity of Satan.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, Nov 24, 2026: St. Andrew Dung-Lac, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 96:10, 11-12, 13
- Tue, Dec 29, 2026: The Fifth Day in the Octave of Christmas — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 5b-6
- Wed, Dec 30, 2026: The Sixth Day in the Octave of Christmas — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 96:7-8a, 8b-9, 10
- Thu, Dec 31, 2026: The Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 96:1-2, 11-12, 13

15 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). 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).