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Tobit 13:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Tobit 13:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Vision of the New Times
The Canticle of Tobit[a]
Chapter 13
Call for Conversion from Sin. 1 Then Tobit in his joy composed this prayer:
“Blessed be God who lives forever,
for his kingdom endures throughout all ages.
2 For he both punishes and forgives;
he consigns people to the depths of Hades
and brings them up from the great abyss.
Nothing can escape his hand.
3 “Praise him, you Israelites, before the nations,
for though he has scattered you among them,
Footnotes
- Tobit 13:1 Tobit’s thanksgiving is expanded in a meditation on the work of God toward the people whom he has chosen and on the future of Jerusalem, the holy city, surpassing the framework of the family history.
