Psalms 1

The Douay-Rheims Bible in Bishop Challoner's revision (1749-52), the standard English Bible of the Catholic Church for two centuries, translated from the Latin Vulgate, with the Clementine Vulgate Latin beside each verse. The English is that of Project Gutenberg's electronic text, with Challoner's notes left out; the Latin is the Clementine Vulgate of 1598, with the medieval Glossa Ordinaria commentary of the edition left out. Book names and chapter and verse numbers follow the Vulgate, so the Psalms are numbered as in the Vulgate (Psalm 22 here is Psalm 23 in the King James Version).

1Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:

Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum, et in via peccatorum non stetit, et in cathedra pestilentiæ non sedit;

2But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night.

sed in lege Domini voluntas ejus, et in lege ejus meditabitur die ac nocte.

3And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

Et erit tamquam lignum quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum, quod fructum suum dabit in tempore suo: et folium ejus non defluet; et omnia quæcumque faciet prosperabuntur.

4Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

Non sic impii, non sic; sed tamquam pulvis quem projicit ventus a facie terræ.

5Therefore the wicked shall not rise again in judgment: nor sinners in the council of the just.

Ideo non resurgent impii in judicio, neque peccatores in concilio justorum:

6For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.

quoniam novit Dominus viam justorum, et iter impiorum peribit.