Bible in a Year.

On day 194, Isaiah 5-6 presents the song of the vineyard and the prophet's majestic vision of God's holiness, highlighting the contrast between sin and faithfulness. Tobit 5-6 depicts Tobias's continued faith and obedience. Proverbs 10:1-4 offers us life lessons about diligence, justice, and integrity, reminding us that wisdom transforms everyday life.

Chapter 5

1. For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure, and thirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels.

11. Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink till the evening, to be inflamed with wine.

12. The harp, and the lyre, and the timbrel, and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.

13. Therefore is my people led away captive, because they had not knowledge, and their nobles have perished with famine, and their multitude were dried up with thirst.

14. Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, and opened her mouth without any bounds, and their strong ones, and their people, and their high and glorious ones shall go down into it.

15. And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low.

16. And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice.

17. And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness.

18. Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart.

19. That say: Let him make haste, and let his work come quickly, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it.

20. Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

21. Woe to you that rue wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits.

22. Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness.

23. That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.

24. Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and the heat of the dame consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes, and their bud shall go up se dust: for they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel.

25. Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand upon them, and struck them: and the mountains were troubled, and their carcasses became as dung in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

26. And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off, and will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and behold they shall come with speed swiftly.

27. There is none that shall faint, nor labour among them: they shall not slumber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken.

28. Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are bent. The hoofs of their horses shall be like the hint, and their wheels like the violence of a tempest.

29. Their roaring like that of a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea they shall roar, and take hold of the prey, and they shall keep fast hold of it, and there shall be none to deliver it.

30. And they shall make a noise against them that day, like the roaring of the sea; we shall look towards the land, and behold darkness of tribulation, and the light is darkened with the mist thereof.

Chapter 6

1. In the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and elevated: and his train filled the temple.

2. Upon it stood the seraphims: the one had six wings, and the other had six wings: with two they covered his face, and with two they covered his feet, and with two they hew.

3. And they cried one to another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God of hosts, all the earth is full of his glory.

4. And the lintels of the doors were moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

5. And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.

6. And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar.

7. And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold this hath touched thy lips, and thy iniquities shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be cleansed.

8. And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send? and who shall go for us? And I said: Lo, here am I, send me.

9. And he said: Go, and thou shalt say to this people: Hearing, hear, and understand not: and see the vision, and know it not.

10. Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I heal them.

11. And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate.

12. And the Lord shall remove men far away, and she shall be multiplied that was left in the midst of the earth.

13. And there shall be still a tithing therein, and she shall turn, and shall be made a show as a turpentine tree, and as an oak that spreadeth its branches: that which shall stand therein, shall be a holy seed.

Chapter 5

1. Then Tobias answered his father, and said: I will do all things, father, which thou hast commanded me.

2. But how I shall get this money, I cannot tell; he knoweth me not, and I know not him: what token shall I give him? nor did I ever know the way which leadeth thither.

3. Then his father answered him, and said: I have a note of his hand with me, which when thou shalt shew him, he will presently pay it.

4. But go now, and seek thee out some faithful man, to go with thee for his hire: that thou mayst receive it, while I yet live.

5. Then Tobias going forth, found a beautiful young man, standing girded, and as it were ready to walk.

6. And not knowing that he was an angel of God, he saluted him, and said: From whence art thou, good young man?

7. But he answered: Of the children of Israel. And Tobias said to him: Knowest thou the way that leadeth to the country of the Medes?

8. And he answered: I know it: and I have often walked through all the ways thereof, and I have abode with Gabelus our brother, who dwelleth at Rages a city of the Medes, which is situate in the mount of Ecbatana.

9. And Tobias said to him: Stay for me, I beseech thee, till I tell these same things to my father.

10. Then Tobias going in told all these things to his father. Upon which his father being in admiration, desired that he would come in unto him.

11. So going in he saluted him, and said: Joy be to thee always.

12. And Tobias said: What manner of joy shall be to me, who sit in darkness, and see not the light of heaven?

13. And the young man said to him: Be of good courage, thy cure from God is at hand.

14. And Tobias said to him: Canst thou conduct my son to Gabelus at Rages, a city of the Medes? and when thou shalt return, I will pay thee thy hire.

15. And the angel said to him: I will conduct him thither, and bring him back to thee.

16. And Tobias said to him: I pray thee, tell me, of what family, or what tribe art thou?

17. And Raphael the angel answered: Dost thou seek the family of him thou hirest, or the hired servant himself to go with thy son?

18. But lest I should make thee uneasy, I am Azarias the son of the great Ananias.

19. And Tobias answered: Thou art of a great family. But I pray thee be not angry that I desired to know thy family.

20. And the angel said to him: I will lead thy son safe, and bring him to thee again safe.

21. And Tobias answering, said: May you have a good journey, and God be with you in your way, and his angel accompany you.

22. Then all things being ready, that were to be carried in their journey, Tobias bade his father and his mother farewell, and they set out both together.

23. And when they were departed, his mother began to weep, and to say: Thou hast taken the staff of our old age, and sent him away from us.

24. I wish the money for which thou hast sent him, had never been.

25. For poverty was sufficient for us, that we might account it as riches, that we saw our son.

26. And Tobias said to her: Weep not, our son will arrive thither safe, and will return safe to us, and thy eyes shall see him.

27. For I believe that the good angel of God doth accompany him, and doth order all things well that are done about him, so that he shall return to us with joy.

28. At these words his mother ceased weeping, and held her peace.

Chapter 6

1. And Tobias went forward, and the dog followed him, and he lodged the first night by the river of Tigris.

2. And he went out to wash his feet, and behold a monstrous fish came up to devour him.

3. And Tobias being afraid of him, cried out with a loud voice, saying: Sir, he cometh upon me.

4. And the angel said to him: Take him by the gill, and draw him to thee. And when he had done so, he drew him out upon the land, and he began to pant before his feet.

5. Then the angel said to him: Take out the entrails of the fish, and lay up his heart, and his gall, and his liver for thee: for these are necessary for useful medicines.

6. And when he had done so, he roasted the flesh thereof, and they took it with them in the way: the rest they salted as much as might serve them, till they came to Rages the city of the Medes.

7. Then Tobias asked the angel, and said to him: I beseech thee, brother Azarias, tell me what remedies are these things good for, which thou hast bid me keep of the fish?

8. And the angel, answering, said to him: If thou put a little piece of its heart upon coals, the smoke thereof driveth away all kind of devils, either from man or from woman, so that they come no more to them.

9. And the gall is good for anointing the eyes, in which there is a white speck, and they shall be cured.

10. And Tobias said to him: Where wilt thou that we lodge?

11. And the angel answering, said: Here is one whose name is Raguel, a near kinsman of thy tribe, and he hath a daughter named Sara, but he hath no son nor any other daughter beside her.

12. All his substance is due to thee, and thou must take her to wife.

13. Ask her therefore of her father, and he will give her thee to wife.

14. Then Tobias answered, and said: I hear that she hath been given to seven husbands, and they all died: moreover I have heard, that a devil killed them.

15. Now I am afraid, lest the same thing should happen to me also: and whereas I am the only child of my parents, I should bring down their old age with sorrow to hell.

16. Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear me, and I will shew thee who they are, over whom the devil can prevail.

17. For they who in such manner receive matrimony, as to shut out God from themselves, and from their mind, and to give themselves to their lust, as the horse and mule, which have not understanding, over them the devil hath power.

18. But thou when thou shalt take her, go into the chamber, and for three days keep thyself continent from her, and give thyself to nothing else but to prayers with her.

19. And on that night lay the liver of the fish on the fire, and the devil shall be driven away.

20. But the second night thou shalt be admitted into the society of the holy Patriarchs.

21. And the third night thou shalt obtain a blessing that sound children may be born of you.

22. And when the third night is past, thou shalt take the virgin with the fear of the Lord, moved rather for love of children than for lust, that in the seed of Abraham thou mayst obtain a blessing in children.

1. A wise son maketh the father glad: but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.

2. Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death.

3. The Lord will not afflict the soul of the just with famine, and he will disappoint the deceitful practices of the wicked.

4. The slothful hand hath wrought poverty: but the hand of the industrious getteth riches. He that trusteth to lies feedeth the winds: and the same runneth after birds that fly away.