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Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. XIII. Tobias the father prayseth God, exhorting al Israel to do the same. 11. prophecieth the restauration and better state of Ierusalem. note

1   And Tobias the elder opening his mouth, blessed our Lord, and sayd: Thou art great Lord for euer, and thy kingdom world without end:

2   because thou scourgest, and fauest: leadest downe to hel, and bringest backe agayne: and there is none that may escape thy hand.

3   C&obar;fesse to our Lord ye children of Israel, and in the sight of the Gentiles prayse him:

4   because he hath therfore dispersed you among the gentiles, which know not him, that you may declare his maruelous workes, and note make them know, that there is no other God omnipotent besides him.

5   He hath chastified vs for our iniquities: and he wil saue vs for his mercie.

6   Behold therfore what he hath done with vs, and with feare and trembling confesse ye to him: and extol the king of the worldes in your workes.

7   And I note in the land of my captiuitie wil confesse to him: because he hath shewed his maiestie toward a sinful nation.

8   Conuert therfore ye sinners, & do iustice before God, beleuing that he wil doe his mercie with you.

9   And I, and my soule wil reioyce in him.

10   Blesse ye our Lord al his elect, celebrate daies of gladnes, and confesse to him.

11   Ierusalem the citie of God, our Lord hath chastised thee in the workes of thy handes.

12   Confesse to our Lord in thy good thinges, and blesse the God of the worldes, that he may note reedesie his tabernacle in thee, and may cal backe al the captiues to thee, & thou mayst reioyce for euer and euer.

13   Thou shalt shine with a glorious light: and al the coastes of the earth shal adore thee.

14   Nations from far shal come to thee: and bringing giftes, they shal adore our Lord in thee, and shal esteeme thy land for sanctification.

15   For they shal inuocate the great name in thee.

16   Cursed shal they be that shal contemne thee: and damned shal they be that shal blaspheme thee: and blessed shal they be that shal build thee.

17   And thou shalt reioyce in thy children, because they shal

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al be blessed, & shal be gathered together to our Lord.

18   Blessed are al that loue thee, and that reioyce vpon thy peace.

19   My soule, blesse thou our Lord, because he hath deliuered Ierusalem his citie note from al her tribulations, the Lord our God.

20   Blessed shal I be if there shal remayne of my seede, to see the glorie of Ierusalem.

21   The gates of Ierusalem shal be built of Saphire and the Emerauld: and al the compasse of the walles therof of pretious stone.

22   With white and cleane stone shal al the streates therof be paued: and in the streates therof noteAlleluia shal be song.

23   Blessed be our Lord, which hath exalted it, and his kingdom be for euer and euer ouer it Amen.
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Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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