The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Tobit 03
1 I was grieved and wept, and prayed in
sorrow, saying,
2 “O Lord, you are righteous, and all your
works and all your ways are mercy and
truth, and you judge true and righteous
judgment forever.
3 Remember me, and look at me. Don’t
take vengeance on me for my sins and my
ignorances, and the sins of my fathers who
sinned before you.
4 For they disobeyed your commandments.
You gave us as plunder, for captivity,
for death, and for a proverb of reproach
to all the nations among whom we
are dispersed.
5 Now your judgments are many and
true, that you should deal with me
according to my sins and the sins of
my fathers, because we didn’t keep
your commandments, for we didn’t
walk in truth before you.
6 Now deal with me according to that
which is pleasing in your sight. Command
my spiritto be takenfromme,thatImaybe
released, and become earth. For it is more
profitable for me to die rather than to live,
because Ihaveheardfalse reproaches, and
there is much sorrow in me. Command
that I be released from my distress, now,
and go to the everlasting place. Don’t turn
your face away from me.”
7 The same day it happened to Sarah the
daughter of Raguel in Ecbatana of Media,