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Cursed are all they which hate thee, and blessed shall all be which love thee for ever.
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Rejoice and be glad for the children of the just: for they shall be gathered together, and shall
bless the Lord of the just.
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O blessed are they which love thee, for they shall rejoice in thy peace: blessed are they which
have been sorrowful for all thy scourges; for they shall rejoice for thee, when they have seen all
thy glory, and shall be glad for ever.
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Let my soul bless God the great King.
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For Jerusalem shall be built up with sapphires and emeralds, and precious stone: thy walls
and towers and battlements with pure gold.
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And the streets of Jerusalem shall be paved with beryl and carbuncle and stones of Ophir.
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And all her streets shall say, Alleluia; and they shall praise him, saying, Blessed be God,
which hath extolled it for ever.
CHAPTER 14
So Tobit made an end of praising God.
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And he was eight and fifty years old when he lost his sight, which was restored to him after
eight years: and he gave alms, and he increased in the fear of the Lord God, and praised him.
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And when he was very aged he called his son, and the sons of his son, and said to him, My
son, take thy children; for, behold, I am aged, and am ready to depart out of this life.
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Go into Media my son, for I surely believe those things which Jonas the prophet spake of
Nineve, that it shall be overthrown; and that for a time peace shall rather be in Media; and that our
brethren shall lie scattered in the earth from that good land: and Jerusalem shall be desolate, and
the house of God in it shall be burned, and shall be desolate for a time;
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And that again God will have mercy on them, and bring them again into the land, where they
shall build a temple, but not like to the first, until the time of that age be fulfilled; and afterward
they shall return from all places of their captivity, and build up Jerusalem gloriously, and the house
of God shall be built in it for ever with a glorious building, as the prophets have spoken thereof.
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And all nations shall turn, and fear the Lord God truly, and shall bury their idols.
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So shall all nations praise the Lord, and his people shall confess God, and the Lord shall exalt
his people; and all those which love the Lord God in truth and justice shall rejoice, shewing mercy
to our brethren.
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And now, my son, depart out of Nineve, because that those things which the prophet Jonas
spake shall surely come to pass.
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But keep thou the law and the commandments, and shew thyself merciful and just, that it may
go well with thee.
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And bury me decently, and thy mother with me; but tarry no longer at Nineve. Remember,
my son, how Aman handled Achiacharus that brought him up, how out of light he brought him into
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