Day 193: The Book of Tobit (2026)

**Fr. Mike Schmitz** (0:04)
Hi, my name is Fr Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to The Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using The Great Adventure Bible Timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 193, and we are reading today from Isaiah chapters 3 and 4, also Tobit chapter 3 and 4, and Proverbs chapter 9 verses 13 through 18 As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition, and I'm using The Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com/bible in a Year. You also can subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe, and then you get daily episodes every single day that we put out a podcast. As I said yesterday, today we're going to talk a little bit about, so where did this Book of Tobit come from? Because I hear there's a rumor out there that you Catholics have maybe, I don't know, 73 books in your Bible, whereas non-Catholics have 66 books in their Bible. And so what's the story behind that? I will do my best to recount that tale as best I can today. That's for today. So, but until then, well, here it is. This is the day. Day 193 We're reading Isaiah chapters 3 and 4, Tobit chapter 3 and 4, Proverbs 9 verses 13 through 18
The Book of the Prophet Isaiah chapter 3, The Lord's Judgment.
For behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water, the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician, and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every man is fellow and every man is neighbor. The youth will be insolent to the elder, and the base fellow to the honorable. When a man takes hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, You have a mantle, you shall be our leader, and this heap of ruins shall be under your rule. In that day he will speak out, saying, I will not be a healer, in my house there is neither bread nor mantle, you shall not make me leader of the people. For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, defying His glorious presence. Their partiality witnesses against them, they proclaim their sin like Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil upon themselves, tell the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds. Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with them, for what his hands have done shall be done to him. My people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your leaders mislead you, and confuse the course of your paths.
The Lord has taken his place to contend. He stands to judge his people. The Lord enters into judgment with the elders and princes of his people. It is you who have devoured the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.
What do you mean by crushing my people? By grinding the face of the poor, says the Lord of hosts. The Lord said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet, the Lord will strike with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts.
In that day, the Lord will take away the finery of their anklets, the headbands and the crescents, the pendants, the bracelets and the scarves, the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets, the signet rings and nose rings, the festal robes, the mantles, the cloaks and the handbags, the garments of gauze, the linen garments, the turbans and the veils. Instead of perfume, there will be rottenness, and instead of a belt, a rope, and instead of well-set hair, baldness, and instead of a rich robe, a putting on of sackcloth. Instead of beauty, shame.