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Psalm 119 (120) — Song of Ascents

Psalmus 119 • Vulgate 119 / Hebrew 120

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Complete historical Scripture text: English Douay-Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752), from the John Murphy edition (1899); Latin Clementine Vulgate. Both underlying texts are public domain. Psalm 119 in Vulgate/Douay-Rheims numbering is Psalm 120 in modern Hebrew numbering (shown in parentheses). Numbered verses follow each source, retaining any superscriptions it prints; headings and verse divisions can differ between editions. This reader has 7 numbered verses in each language. It belongs to the fifteen gradual psalms (Songs of Ascents) in grant 9. Grant 30 concerns reverent spiritual reading of approved Scripture, with its specified duration for a plenary indulgence.

Text edition English: Douay-Rheims, Challoner revision (1749–1752), John Murphy edition (1899). Latin: Clementine Vulgate.

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English text

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Estimated English reading time 35–60 seconds

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1. In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me. 2. O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue. 3. What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, to a deceitful tongue? 4. The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste. 5. Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with the inhabitants of Cedar: 6. My soul hath been long a sojourner. 7. With them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spoke to them they fought against me without cause.

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Estimated Latin reading time 25–50 seconds

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1. Canticum graduum. Ad Dominum cum tribularer clamavi, et exaudivit me. 2. Domine, libera animam meam a labiis iniquis et a lingua dolosa. 3. Quid detur tibi, aut quid apponatur tibi ad linguam dolosam? 4. Sagittae potentis acutae, cum carbonibus desolatoriis. 5. Heu mihi, quia incolatus meus prolongatus est! habitavi cum habitantibus Cedar; 6. multum incola fuit anima mea. 7. Cum his qui oderunt pacem eram pacificus; cum loquebar illis, impugnabant me gratis.

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