Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation "Now treat me as you please. Take my life away and free me from this world; let my body return to the earth. I would be better off dead. I am tormented by insults I don't deserve, and weighed down with despair. Lord, give the command-- bring all my troubles to an end, take me to my eternal rest. Don't reject my prayer. I would rather die than live in misery and face such cruel insults." New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And now, O Lord, do with me according to thy will, and command my spirit to be received in peace: for it is better for me to die, than to live. Tobit 3:4For we have not obeyed thy commandments, therefore are we delivered to spoil and to captivity, and death, and are made a fable, and a reproach to all nations, amongst which thou hast scattered us. Tobit 3:5 And now, O Lord, great are thy judgments, because we have not done according to thy precepts, and have not walked sincerely before thee. Tobit 3:7 Now it happened on the same day, that Sara daughter of Raguel, in Rages a city of the Medes, received a reproach from one of her father's servant maids, Tobit 3:8 Because she had been given to seven husbands and a devil named Asmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her. Context Tobit 3…5And now, O Lord, great are thy judgments, because we have not done according to thy precepts, and have not walked sincerely before thee. 6And now, O Lord, do with me according to thy will, and command my spirit to be received in peace: for it is better for me to die, than to live. 7Now it happened on the same day, that Sara daughter of Raguel, in Rages a city of the Medes, received a reproach from one of her father's servant maids,… Cross References Tobit 3:4 For we have not obeyed thy commandments, therefore are we delivered to spoil and to captivity, and death, and are made a fable, and a reproach to all nations, amongst which thou hast scattered us. Tobit 3:5 And now, O Lord, great are thy judgments, because we have not done according to thy precepts, and have not walked sincerely before thee. Tobit 3:7 Now it happened on the same day, that Sara daughter of Raguel, in Rages a city of the Medes, received a reproach from one of her father's servant maids, Tobit 3:8 Because she had been given to seven husbands and a devil named Asmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her. |