Bible in a Year.

On day 192, Isaiah 1:2 denounces hypocrisy and calls for repentance, highlighting God's justice. Tobit 1:2 presents us with young Tobias's faithfulness and courage in the face of challenges. Proverbs 9:7-12 emphasizes the importance of listening to wisdom and instruction, showing that true understanding leads to a fulfilling life.

Chapter 1

1. The vision of Isaias the son of Amos I which he saw concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda

2. Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me.

3. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.

4. Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards.

5. For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.

6. From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no soundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil.

7. Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies.

8. And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid waste.

9. Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha.

10. Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.

11. To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.

12. When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?

13. Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination tome. The new moons, and the sabbaths, and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.

14. My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.

15. And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

16. Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,

17. Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.

18. And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.

19. if you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.

20. But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

21. How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.

22. Thy silver is turned into dress: thy wine is mingled with water.

23. Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cometh not in to them.

24. Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty one of Israel: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries: and I will be revenged of my enemies.

25. And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dress, and I will take away all thy tin.

26. And I will restore thy judges se they were before, and thy counsellors as of old. After this thou shalt be called the city of the just, a faithful city.

27. Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back in justice.

28. And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed.

29. For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen.

30. When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water.

31. And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench it.

Chapter 2

1. The word that Isaias the son of Amos saw, concerning Juda and Jerusalem.

2. And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.

3. And many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall come forth from Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

4. And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they be exercised any more to war.

5. O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

6. For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob: because they are filled as in times past, and have had soothsayers as the Philistines, and have adhered to strange children.

7. Their land is filled with silver and gold: and there is no end of their treasures.

8. And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots are innumerable. Their land also is full of idols: they have adored the work of their own hands, which their own fingers have made.

9. And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore forgive them not.

10. Enter thou into the rock, and hide thee in the pit from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty.

11. The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

12. Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and highminded, and upon every one that is arrogant, and he shall be humbled.

13. And upon all the tall and lofty cedars of Libanus, and upon all the oaks of Basan.

14. And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the elevated hills.

15. And upon every high tower, and every fenced wall.

16. And upon all the ships of Tharsis, and upon all that is fair to behold.

17. And the loftiness of men shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

18. And idols shall be utterly destroyed.

19. And they shall go into the holes of rocks, and into the caves of the earth from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.

20. In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.

21. 21And he shall go into the clefts of rocks, and into the holes of stones from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.

22. Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.

Chapter 1

1. Tobias of the tribe and city of Nephtali, (which is in the upper parts of Galilee above Naasson, beyond the way that leadeth to the west, having on the right hand the city of Sephet,)

2. When he was made captive in the days of Salmanasar king of the Assyrians, even in his captivity, forsook not the way of truth,

3. But every day gave all he could get to his brethren his fellow captives, that were of his kindred.

4. And when he was younger than any of the tribe of Nephtali, yet did he no childish thing in his work.

5. Moreover when all went to the golden calves which Jeroboam king of Israel had made, he alone fled the company of all,

6. And went to Jerusalem to the temple of the Lord, and there adored the Lord God of Israel, offering faithfully all his firstfruits, and his tithes,

7. So that in the third year he gave all his tithes to the proselytes, and strangers.

8. These and such like things did he observe when but a boy according to the law of God.

9. But when he was a man, he took to wife Anna of his own tribe, and had a son by her, whom he called after his own name,

10. And from his infancy he taught him to fear God, and to abstain from all sin.

11. And when by the captivity he with his wife and his son and all his tribe was come to the city of Ninive,

12. (When all ate of the meats of the Gentiles) he kept his soul and never was defiled with their meats.

13. And because he was mindful of the Lord with all his heart, God gave him favour in the sight of Salmanasar the king.

14. And he gave him leave to go whithersoever he would, with liberty to do whatever he had a mind.

15. He therefore went to all that were in captivity, and gave them wholesome admonitions.

16. And when he was come to Rages a city of the Medes, and had ten talents of silver of that with which he had been honoured by the king:

17. And when amongst a great multitude of his kindred, he saw Gabelus in want, who was one of his tribe, taking a note of his hand he gave him the aforesaid sum of money.

18. But after a long time, Salmanasar the king being dead, when Sennacherib his son, who reigned in his place, had a hatred for the children of Israel:

19. Tobias daily went among all his kindred, and comforted them, and distributed to every one as he was able, out of his goods:

20. He fed the hungry, and gave clothes to the naked, and was careful to bury the dead, and they that were slain.

21. And when king Sennacherib was come back, fleeing from Judea by reason of the slaughter that God had made about him for his blasphemy, and being angry slew many of the children of Israel, Tobias buried their bodies.

22. But when it was told the king, he commanded him to be slain, and took away all his substance.

23. But Tobias fleeing naked away with his son and with his wife, lay concealed, for many loved him.

24. But after forty-five days, the king was killed by his own sons.

25. And Tobias returned to his house, and all his substance was restored to him.

Chapter 2

1. But after this, when there was a festival of the Lord, and a good dinner was prepared in Tobias's house,

2. He said to his son: Go, and bring some of our tribe that fear God, to feast with us.

3. And when he had gone, returning he told him, that one of the children of Israel lay slain in the street. And he forthwith leaped up from his place at the table, and left his dinner, and came fasting to the body:

4. And taking it up carried it privately to his house, that after the sun was down, he might bury him cautiously.

5. And when he had hid the body, he ate bread with mourning and fear,

6. Remembering the word which the Lord spoke by Amos the prophet: Your festival days shall be turned into lamentation and mourning.

7. So when the sun was down, he went and buried him.

8. Now all his neighbours blamed him, saying: Once already commandment was given for thee to be slain because of this matter, and thou didst scarce escape the sentence of death, and dost thou again bury the dead?

9. But Tobias fearing God more than the king, carried off the bodies of them that were slain, and hid them in his house, and at midnight buried them.

10. Now it happened one day, that being wearied with burying, he came to his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept,

11. And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind.

12. Now this trial the Lord therefore permitted to happen to him, that an example might be given to posterity of his patience, as also of holy Job.

13. For whereas he had always feared God from his infancy, and kept his commandments, he repined not against God because the evil of blindness had befallen him,

14. But continued immoveable in the fear of God, giving thanks to God all the days of his life.

15. For as the kings insulted over holy Job: so his relations and kinsmen mocked at his life, saying:

16. Where is thy hope, for which thou gavest alms, and buriedst the dead?

17. But Tobias rebuked them, saying: Speak not so:

18. For we are the children of the saints, and look for that life which God will give to those that never change their faith from him.

19. Now Anna his wife went daily to weaving work, and she brought home what she could get for their living by the labour of her hands.

20. Whereby it came to pass, that she received a young kid, and brought it home:

21. And when her husband heard it bleating, he said: Take heed, lest perhaps it be stolen: restore ye it to its owners, for it is not lawful for us either to eat or to touch any thing that cometh by theft.

22. At these words his wife being angry answered: It is evident thy hope is come to nothing, and thy alms now appear.

23. And with these, and other such like words she upbraided him.

7. He that teacheth a scorner, doth an injury to himself: and he that rebuketh a wicked man, getteth himself a blot.

8. Rebuke not a scorner lest he hate thee. Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

9. Give an occasion to a wise man, and wisdom shall be added to him. Teach a just man, and he shall make haste to receive it.

10. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is prudence.

11. For by me shall thy days be multiplied, and years of life shall be added to thee.

12. If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil.