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# Tobit 3

Tobit 3 is chapter 3 of 14 in the Book of Tobit. Here are all 25 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The prayer of Tobias, and of Sara, in their several afflictions, are heard by God, and the angel Raphael is sent to relieve them.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Tobit 3 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Then Tobit sighed, and he began to pray with tears,
2. saying, “O Lord, you are just and all your judgments are just, and all your ways are mercy, and truth, and judgment.
3. And now, O Lord, remember me, and do not take vengeance for my sins, and do not call to mind my offenses, nor those of my parents.
4. For we have not obeyed your precepts, and so we have been handed over to plundering and to captivity, and to death, and to mockery, and as a disgrace before all the nations, among which you have dispersed us.
5. And now, O Lord, great are your judgments. For we have not acted according to your precepts, and we have not walked sincerely before you.
6. And now, O Lord, do with me according to your will, and order my spirit to be received in peace. For it is more expedient for me to die, than to live.”
7. And so, on the same day, it happened that Sarah, the daughter of Raguel, in Rages, a city of the Medes, also heard a reproach from one of her father’s servant maids.
8. For she had been given to seven husbands, and a demon named Asmodeus had killed them, as soon as they had approached her.
9. Therefore, when she corrected the maid for her fault, she answered her, saying, “May we never see son or daughter from you upon the earth, you murderess of your husbands.
10. Would you also kill me, just as you have already killed seven husbands?” At these words, she proceeded to an upper room of her house. And for three days and three nights, she did not eat or drink.
11. But, continuing in prayer with tears, she beseeched God, so that he would liberate her from this reproach.
12. And it happened on the third day, while she was completing her prayer, blessing the Lord,
13. that she said: “Blessed is your name, O God of our fathers, who, though you had been angry, will show mercy. And in time of tribulation, you dismiss the sins of those who call upon you.
14. To you, O Lord, I turn my face; to you, I direct my eyes.
15. I beg you, O Lord, that you may absolve me from the chains of this reproach, or at least take me away from the earth.
16. You know, O Lord, that I have never coveted a husband, and I have preserved my soul clean from all impure desire.
17. I have never mingled myself with those who play. And I have not presented myself as a participant with those who walk with levity.
18. But I consented to accept a husband, in your fear, not in my lust.
19. And, either I was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not worthy of me. For perhaps you have preserved me for another husband.
20. For your counsel is not within the ability of man.
21. But all who worship you are certain of this: that one’s life, if it should be tested, shall be crowned, and if it should be in tribulation, shall be delivered, and if it should be corrected, shall be permitted to approach your mercy.
22. For you are not delighted with our perdition. For, after a storm, you create tranquility, and after tears and weeping, you pour out exultation.
23. May your name, O God of Israel, be blessed forever.”
24. At that time, the prayers of them both were heard in the sight of the glory of the most high God.
25. And the holy Angel of the Lord, Raphael, was sent to care for both of them, whose prayers were recited at the same time in the sight of the Lord.

## Tobit 3 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Tunc Tobias ingemuit, et cœpit orare cum lacrimis,
2. dicens: Justus es, Domine, et omnia judicia tua justa sunt, et omnes viæ tuæ, misericordia, et veritas, et judicium.
3. Et nunc Domine, memor esto mei, et ne vindictam sumas de peccatis meis, neque reminiscaris delicta mea, vel parentum meorum.
4. Quoniam non obedivimus præceptis tuis, ideo traditi sumus in direptionem, et captivitatem, et mortem, et in fabulam, et in improperium omnibus nationibus in quibus dispersisti nos.
5. Et nunc Domine, magna judicia tua, quia non egimus secundum præcepta tua, et non ambulavimus sinceriter coram te.
6. Et nunc Domine, secundum voluntatem tuam fac mecum, et præcipe in pace recipi spiritum meum: expedit enim mihi mori magis quam vivere.
7. Eadem itaque die, contigit ut Sara filia Raguelis in Rages civitate Medorum et ipsa audiret improperium ab una ex ancillis patris sui,
8. quoniam tradita fuerat septem viris, et dæmonium nomine Asmodæus occiderat eos, mox ut ingressi fuissent ad eam.
9. Ergo cum pro culpa sua increparet puellam, respondit ei, dicens: Amplius ex te non videamus filium aut filiam super terram, interfectrix virorum tuorum.
10. Numquid et occidere me vis, sicut jam occidisti septem viros? Ad hanc vocem perrexit in superius cubiculum domus suæ: et tribus diebus, et tribus noctibus non manducavit, neque bibit:
11. sed in oratione persistens cum lacrimis deprecabatur Deum, ut ab isto improperio liberaret eam.
12. Factum est autem die tertia, dum compleret orationem, benedicens Dominum
13. dixit: Benedictum est nomen tuum, Deus patrum nostrorum: qui cum iratus fueris, misericordiam facies, et in tempore tribulationis peccata dimittis his qui invocant te.
14. Ad te, Domine, faciem meam converto; ad te oculos meos dirigo.
15. Peto, Domine, ut de vinculo improperii hujus absolvas me, aut certe desuper terram eripias me.
16. Tu scis, Domine, quia numquam concupivi virum, et mundam servavi animam meam ab omni concupiscentia.
17. Numquam cum ludentibus miscui me, neque cum his qui in levitate ambulant, participem me præbui.
18. Virum autem cum timore tuo, non cum libidine mea, consensi suscipere.
19. Et, aut ego indigna fui illis, aut illi forsitan me non fuerunt digni, quia forsitan viro alii conservasti me.
20. Non est enim in hominis potestate consilium tuum.
21. Hoc autem pro certo habet omnis qui te colit: quod vita ejus, si in probatione fuerit, coronabitur; si autem in tribulatione fuerit, liberabitur; et si in correptione fuerit, ad misericordiam tuam venire licebit.
22. Non enim delectaris in perditionibus nostris: quia post tempestatem tranquillum facis, et post lacrimationem et fletum, exultationem infundis.
23. Sit nomen tuum, Deus Israël, benedictum in sæcula.
24. In illo tempore exauditæ sunt preces amborum in conspectu gloriæ summi Dei:
25. et missus est angelus Domini sanctus Raphaël ut curaret eos ambos, quorum uno tempore sunt orationes in conspectu Domini recitatæ.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2585: In the Old Testament ([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 7: “Rages” … In the Greek it is Ecbatana, which was also called Rages. For there were two cities in Media of the name of Rages. Raguel dwelt in one of them, and Gabelus in the other.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Wed, Jun 2, 2027 (computed): Wednesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Tobit 3:1-11a, 16-17a

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).