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604 Book of Tobias

them know that there is no other almighty God 19 My soul, bless thou the Lord, because the
besides him. Lord our God hath delivered Jerusalem his city
5 He hath chastised us for our iniquities: and from all her troubles.
he will save us for his own mercy. 20 Happy shall I be if there shall remain of
6 See then what he hath done with us, and my seed, to see the glory of Jerusalem.
with fear and trembling give ye glory to him: and 21 The gates of Jerusalem shall be built of sap-
extol the eternal King of worlds in your works. phire, and of emerald, and all the walls thereof
7 As for me, I will praise him in the land of round about of precious stones.
my captivity: because he hath shewn his majesty 22 All its streets shall be paved with white
toward a sinful nation, and clean stones: and Alleluia shall be sung in
8 Be converted therefore, ye sinners, and do its streets,
justice before God, believing that he will shew 23 Blessed be the Lord, who hath exalted it,
his mercy to you. and may he reign over it for ever and ever, Amen.
9 And I and my soul will rejoice in him.
10 Bless ye the Lord, all his elect, keep days Chapter 14
of joy, and give glory to him.
11 Jerusalem, city of God, the Lord hath chas- And the words of Tobias were ended. And after
tised thee for the works of thy hands. Tobias was restored to his sight, he lived two and
12 Give glory to the Lord for thy good things, forty years, and saw the children of his grandchil-
and bless the God eternal that he may rebuild dren.
his tabernacle in thee, and may call back all the 2 And after he had lived a hundred and two
captives to thee, and thou mayst rejoice for ever years, he was buried honorably in Ninive.
and ever. 3 For he was six and fifty years old when he
13 Thou shalt shine with a glorious light: and lost the sight of his eyes, and sixty when he re-
all the ends of the earth shall worship thee, covered it again.
14 Nations from afar shall come to thee: and 4 And the rest of his life was in joy, and with
shall bring gifts, and shall adore the Lord in thee, great increase of the fear of God he departed in
and shall esteem thy land as holy. peace.
15 For they shall call upon the great name in 5 And at the hour of his death he called unto
thee, him his son Tobias and his children, seven young
16 They shall be cursed that shall despise men, his grandsons, and said to them:
thee: and they shall be condemned that shall 6 The destruction of Ninive is at hand: for
blaspheme thee: and blessed shall they be that the word of the Lord must be fulfilled: and
shall build thee up, our brethren, that are scattered abroad from the
17 But thou shalt rejoice in thy children, be- land of Israel, shall return to it.
cause they shall all be blessed, and shall be gath- 7 And all the land thereof that is desert shall
ered together to the Lord. be filled with people, and the house of God which
18 Blessed are all they that love thee, and that is burnt in it, shall again be rebuilt: and all that
rejoice in thy peace, fear God shall return thither.