The Australian Bishops’ Conference has decided that musical settings of the psalms which use translations other than those approved for the Lectionary may be used.  At their May 2024 meeting, the bishops confirmed that “scripture texts set to music, by long custom in Australia, may be drawn from a wider selection of available translations to enable use of the worldwide array of quality musical settings, especially of the psalms and canticles.”

The current Lectionary in Australia uses the Jerusalem Bible translation (1966) with the Grail psalms (1963).  Other approved versions are the Revised New Jerusalem Bible (2019), which is the proposed text for the new Lectionary in Australia, the New Revised Standard Version (1989) and, for Masses with children, the Contemporary English Version (2000).