Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation You deserve our praise, O Lord; you were merciful to this young couple, the only children of their parents. Now, grant them your mercy and protection. Let them live out their lives in happiness and love." New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And said: We bless thee, O Lord God of Israel, because it hath not happened as we suspected. Tobit 8:15So she sent one of her maidservants, who went into the chamber, and found them safe and sound, sleeping both together. Tobit 8:16 And returning she brought the good news: and Raguel and Anna his wife blessed the Lord, Tobit 8:18 For thou hast shewn thy mercy to us, and hast shut out from us the enemy that persecuted us. Tobit 8:19 And thou hast taken pity upon two only children. Make them, O Lord, bless thee more fully: and to offer up to thee a sacrifice of thy praise, and of their health, that all nations may know, that thou alone art God in all the earth. Context Tobit 8…16And returning she brought the good news: and Raguel and Anna his wife blessed the Lord, 17And said: We bless thee, O Lord God of Israel, because it hath not happened as we suspected. 18For thou hast shewn thy mercy to us, and hast shut out from us the enemy that persecuted us.… Cross References Tobit 8:15 So she sent one of her maidservants, who went into the chamber, and found them safe and sound, sleeping both together. Tobit 8:16 And returning she brought the good news: and Raguel and Anna his wife blessed the Lord, Tobit 8:18 For thou hast shewn thy mercy to us, and hast shut out from us the enemy that persecuted us. Tobit 8:19 And thou hast taken pity upon two only children. Make them, O Lord, bless thee more fully: and to offer up to thee a sacrifice of thy praise, and of their health, that all nations may know, that thou alone art God in all the earth. |