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# Tobit 13

Tobit 13 is chapter 13 of 14 in the Book of Tobit. Here are all 23 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Tobias the father praiseth God, exhorting all Israel to do the same. Prophesieth the restoration and better state of Jerusalem.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Tobit 13 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And so, the elder Tobit, opening his mouth, blessed the Lord, and he said: “O Lord, you are great in eternity and your kingdom is with all ages.
2. For you scourge, and you save. You lead down to the grave, and you bring up again. And there is no one who can escape from your hand.
3. Confess to the Lord, O sons of Israel, and praise him in the sight of the nations.
4. For, indeed, he has dispersed you among the Gentiles, who are ignorant of him, that you may proclaim his wonders, and that you may cause them to know that there is no other almighty God, except him.
5. He has chastised us because of our iniquities, and he will save us because of his mercy.
6. Therefore, look upon what he has done for us, and, with fear and trembling, confess to him. And extol the King of all ages with your works.
7. But as for me, I will confess him in the land of my captivity. For he has revealed his majesty within a sinful nation.
8. And so, be converted, you sinners, and do justice in the presence of God, believing that he will act in his mercy toward you.
9. But I and my soul will rejoice in him.
10. Bless the Lord, all you his elect. Keep days of rejoicing, and confess to him.
11. O Jerusalem, the city of God, the Lord has chastised you for the works of your hands.
12. Confess to the Lord with your good things, and bless the God of all ages, so that he may rebuild his tabernacle in you, and he may recall all the captives to you, and you may be glad in all ages and forever.
13. You will shine with a splendid light, and all the ends of the earth will adore by you.
14. Nations from far away will come to you, bringing gifts. And in you, they shall adore the Lord, and they will hold your land in sanctification.
15. For they will invoke the Great Name in you.
16. Those who despise you will be cursed, and all those who blaspheme by you will be condemned, and those who build you up will be blessed.
17. But you will rejoice in your sons, because they will all be blessed, and they will be gathered together for the Lord.
18. Blessed are all those who love you and who rejoice in your peace.
19. Bless the Lord, O my soul, for the Lord our God has freed Jerusalem, his city, from every one of her tribulations.
20. Happy will I be, if any of my offspring will be left to see the brightness of Jerusalem.
21. The gates of Jerusalem will be built from sapphire and emerald, and all its walls will be surrounded with precious stones.
22. All its streets will be paved with stones, white and clean. And ‘Alleluia’ will be sung throughout its neighborhoods.
23. Blessed be the Lord, who has exalted it, and may he reign over it, forever and ever. Amen.”

## Tobit 13 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Aperiens autem Tobias senior os suum, benedixit Dominum, et dixit: Magnus es, Domine, in æternum, et in omnia sæcula regnum tuum:
2. quoniam tu flagellas, et salvas; deducis ad inferos, et reducis: et non est qui effugiat manum tuam.
3. Confitemini Domino, filii Israël, et in conspectu gentium laudate eum:
4. quoniam ideo dispersit vos inter gentes quæ ignorant eum, ut vos enarretis mirabilia ejus, et faciatis scire eos quia non est alius deus omnipotens præter eum.
5. Ipse castigavit nos propter iniquitates nostras, et ipse salvabit nos propter misericordiam suam.
6. Aspicite ergo quæ fecit nobiscum, et cum timore et tremore confitemini illi: regemque sæculorum exaltate in operibus vestris.
7. Ego autem in terra captivitatis meæ confitebor illi: quoniam ostendit majestatem suam in gentem peccatricem.
8. Convertimini itaque peccatores, et facite justitiam coram Deo, credentes quod faciat vobiscum misericordiam suam.
9. Ego autem et anima mea in eo lætabimur.
10. Benedicite Dominum omnes electi ejus: agite dies lætitiæ, et confitemini illi.
11. Jerusalem civitas Dei, castigavit te Dominus in operibus manuum tuarum.
12. Confitere Domino in bonis tuis, et benedic Deum sæculorum: ut reædificet in te tabernaculum suum, et revocet ad te omnes captivos, et gaudeas in omnia sæcula sæculorum.
13. Luce splendida fulgebis, et omnes fines terræ adorabunt te.
14. Nationes ex longinquo ad te venient, et munera deferentes adorabunt in te Dominum, et terram tuam in sanctificationem habebunt:
15. nomen enim magnum invocabunt in te.
16. Maledicti erunt qui contempserint te, et condemnati erunt omnes qui blasphemaverint te: benedictique erunt qui ædificaverint te.
17. Tu autem lætaberis in filiis tuis, quoniam omnes benedicentur, et congregabuntur ad Dominum.
18. Beati omnes qui diligunt te, et qui gaudent super pace tua.
19. Anima mea, benedic Dominum, quoniam liberavit Jerusalem civitatem suam a cunctis tribulationibus ejus Dominus Deus noster.
20. Beatus ero si fuerint reliquiæ seminis mei ad videndam claritatem Jerusalem.
21. Portæ Jerusalem ex sapphiro et smaragdo ædificabuntur, et ex lapide pretioso omnis circuitus murorum ejus.
22. Ex lapide candido et mundo omnes plateæ ejus sternentur, et per vicos ejus alleluja cantabitur.
23. Benedictus Dominus, qui exaltavit eam, et sit regnum ejus in sæcula sæculorum super eam. Amen.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 269: The Almighty ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 11: “Jerusalem” … What is prophetically delivered here, and in the following chapter, with relation to Jerusalem, is partly to be understood of the rebuilding of the city after the captivity: and partly of the spiritual Jerusalem, which is the church of Christ, and the eternal Jerusalem in heaven.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sat, Jun 5, 2027 (computed): Saturday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Tobit 13:2, 6efgh, 7, 8
- Wed, Sep 22, 2027 (computed): Wednesday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Tobit 13:2, 3-4a, 4befghn, 7-8

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).