1 And Tobit made an end of giving thanks.
2 And he was eight and fifty years old when he lost his sight; and after eight years he received it again: and he gave alms, and he feared the Lord God more and more, and gave thanks to him.
3 Now he grew very old; and he called his son, and the six sons of his son, and said to him, My child, take your sons: behold, I am grown old, and am ready to depart out of this life.
4 Go into Media, my child, for I surely believe all the things which Jonah the prophet spoke of Nineveh, that it shall be overthrown, but in Media there shall rather be peace for a season; and that our brethren shall be scattered in the earth from the good land; and Jerusalem shall be desolate, and the house of God in it shall be burned up, and shall be desolate for a time;