into sanctification. They shall call in
thee a great name, they shall be cursed that shall despise thee, and
they all shall be condemned that blaspheme thee. Blessed be they that
edify thee, thou shalt be joyful in thy sons, for all shall be blessed,
and shall be gathered together unto our Lord. Blessed be they that love
thee and that joy upon thy peace. My soul, bless thou our Lord, for he
hath delivered Jerusalem his city. I shall be blessed if there be left
of my seed for to see the clearness of Jerusalem. The gates of Jerusalem
shall be edified of sapphire and emerald, and all the circuit of his
walls of precious stone; all the streets thereof shall be paved with
white stone and clean; and Alleluia shall be sung by the ways thereof.
Blessed be the Lord that hath exalted it that it may be his kingdom in
secula seculorum, Amen. And thus Tobit finished these words. And Tobit
lived after he had received his sight forty-two years, and saw the sons
of his nephews, that is, the sons of the sons of his son young Tobias.
And when he had lived one hundred and two years he died, and was
honorably buried in the city of Nineveh.

He was fifty-six years old when he lost his sight, and when he was sixty
years old he received his sight again. The residue of his life was in
joy, and with good profit of the dread of God he departed in peace. In
the hour of his death he called to him Tobias his son, and seven of his
young sons, his nephews, and said to them: The destruction of Nineveh is
nigh, the word of God shall not pass, and our brethren that be
disperpled [scattered] from the land of Israel shall return thither
again. All the land thereof shall be fulfilled with desert, and the
house that is burnt therein shall be re-edified, and thither shall
return all people dreading God. And Gentiles shall leave their idols and
shall come in Jerusalem and shall dwell, therein, and all the kings of
the earth shall joy in her, worshipping the king of Israel. Hear ye
therefore, my sons, me your father, serve ye God in truth and seek ye
that ye do that may be pleasing to him, and command ye to your sons that
they do righteousness and alms, that they may remember God and bless him
in all time in truth and in all their virtue. Now therefore, my sons,
hear me and dwell ye no longer here, but whensoever your mother shall
die, bury her by me and from then forthon dress ye your steps that ye
go hence, I see well that wickedness shall make an end of it.