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Tobit 13:9 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" O Jerusalem, the holy city, he will scourge you for the works of your sons, and will again have mercy on the sons of the righteous. "

Tobit 13:9

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7 I exalt my God. My soul exalts the King of heaven, and rejoices in his greatness.

8 Let all men speak, and let them give him thanks in Jerusalem.

9 O Jerusalem, the holy city, he will scourge you for the works of your sons, and will again have mercy on the sons of the righteous.

10 Give thanks to the Lord with goodness, and bless the everlasting King, that his tabernacle may be built in you again with joy, and that he may make glad in you those who are captives, and love in you forever those who are miserable.

11 Many nations will come from afar to the name of the Lord God with gifts in their hands, even gifts to the King of heaven. Generations of generations will praise you, and sing songs of rejoicing.

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Isaiah 60:14

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"The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you the LORD’s City, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel."

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Jeremiah 25:18

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"Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, with its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is today;"

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Daniel 9:16

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"Lord, according to all your righteousness, please let your anger and your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us."

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Daniel 3:28

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"In all the things that you have brought upon us, and upon the holy city of our fathers, Jerusalem, you have executed true judgments. For according to truth and justice you have brought all these things upon us because of our sins."

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Isaiah 3:8

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"For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory."

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Tobit 13:1

"And Tobit wrote a prayer for rejoicing, and said, “Blessed is God who lives forever! Blessed is his kingdom!"

Tobit 13:2

"For he scourges, and shows mercy. He leads down to the grave, and brings up again. There is no one who will escape his hand."

Tobit 13:3

"Give thanks to him before the Gentiles, all you children of Israel! For he has scattered us among them."

Tobit 13:4

"Declare his greatness, there. Extol him before all the living, because he is our Lord, and God is our Father forever."

Tobit 13:5

"He will scourge us for our iniquities, and will again show mercy, and will gather us out of all the nations among whom you are all scattered."

Tobit 13:6

"If you turn to him with your whole heart and with your whole soul, to do truth before him, then he will turn to you, and won’t hide his face from you. See what he will do with you. Give him thanks with your whole mouth. Bless the Lord of righteousness. Exalt the everlasting King. I give him thanks in the land of my captivity, and show his strength and majesty to a nation of sinners. Turn, you sinners, and do righteousness before him. Who can tell if he will accept you and have mercy on you?"

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