The Douay-Rheims Audio Bible is a reading of The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Version, with Challoner Revisions. Translated from the Latin Vulgate, the Douay-Rheims was the first English translation of the Bible, predating even the King James Version. The New Testament was published in 1582. Narrated by Steve Webb.

The Douay-Rheims Audio Bible

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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">AND looking on, he saw the rich men cast their gifts into the treasury.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.21.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in two brass mites.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.21.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And he said: Verily I say to you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For all these have of their abundance cast into the offerings of God: but she of her want, hath cast in all the living that she had.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And some saying of the temple, that it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">These things which you see, the days will come in which there shall not be left a stone upon a stone that shall not be thrown down.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And they asked him, saying: Master, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when they shall begin to come to pass?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Who said: Take heed you be not seduced; for many will come in my name, saying, I am he; and the time is at hand: go ye not therefore after them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.21.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And when you shall hear of wars and seditions, be not terrified: these things must first come to pass; but the end is not yet presently.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then he said to them: Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.21.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And there shall be great earthquakes in divers places, and pestilences, and famines, and terrors from heaven; and there shall be great signs.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.21.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But before all these things, they will lay their hands upon you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons, dragging you before kings and governors, for my name's sake.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.21.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And it shall happen unto you for a testimony.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Lay it up therefore into your hearts, not to meditate before how you shall answer:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to resist and gainsay.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.21.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And you shall be betrayed by your parents and brethren, and kinsmen and friends; and some of you they will put to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.21.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.21.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But a hair of your head shall not perish.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.21.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">In your patience you shall possess your souls.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.21.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed about with an army; then know that the desolation thereof is at hand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.21.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then let those who are in Judea, flee to the mountains; and those who are in the midst thereof, depart out: and those who are in the countries, not enter into it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.21.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For these are the days of vengeance, that all things may be fulfilled, that are written.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.21.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But woe to them that are with child, and give suck in those days; for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.21.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And they shall fall by the edge of the sword; and shall be led away captives into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the Gentiles; till the times of the nations be fulfilled.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.21.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, by reason of the confusion of the roaring of the sea and of the waves;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.21.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Men withering away for fear, and expectation of what shall come upon the whole world. For the powers of heaven shall be moved;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.21.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And then they shall see the Son of man coming in a cloud, with great power and majesty.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.21.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is at hand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.21.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">And he spoke to them in a similitude. See the fig tree, and all the trees:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.21.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.21.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When they now shoot forth their fruit, you know that summer is nigh;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.21.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.21.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">So you also, when you shall see these things come to pass, know that the kingdom of God is at hand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.21.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.21.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Amen, I say to you, this generation shall not pass away, till all things be fulfilled.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.21.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.21.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.21.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.21.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.21.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.21.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">For as a snare shall it come upon all that sit upon the face of the whole earth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.21.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.21.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Watch ye, therefore, praying at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come, and to stand before the Son of man.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.21.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.21.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">And in the daytime, he was teaching in the temple; but at night, going out, he abode in the mount that is called Olivet.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.21.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.21.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, to hear him.</span></span></div>
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An historical text. In 1955 the Douay-Rheims Challoner Bible received the Imprimatur ✠ of the English Catholic Church from the Archbishop of Westminster.

AND looking on, he saw the rich men cast their gifts into the treasury.
And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in two brass mites.
And he said: Verily I say to you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:
For all these have of their abundance cast into the offerings of God: but she of her want, hath cast in all the living that she had.
And some saying of the temple, that it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said:
These things which you see, the days will come in which there shall not be left a stone upon a stone that shall not be thrown down.
And they asked him, saying: Master, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when they shall begin to come to pass?
Who said: Take heed you be not seduced; for many will come in my name, saying, I am he; and the time is at hand: go ye not therefore after them.
And when you shall hear of wars and seditions, be not terrified: these things must first come to pass; but the end is not yet presently.
Then he said to them: Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
And there shall be great earthquakes in divers places, and pestilences, and famines, and terrors from heaven; and there shall be great signs.
But before all these things, they will lay their hands upon you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons, dragging you before kings and governors, for my name's sake.
And it shall happen unto you for a testimony.
Lay it up therefore into your hearts, not to meditate before how you shall answer:
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to resist and gainsay.
And you shall be betrayed by your parents and brethren, and kinsmen and friends; and some of you they will put to death.
And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake.
But a hair of your head shall not perish.
In your patience you shall possess your souls.
And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed about with an army; then know that the desolation thereof is at hand.
Then let those who are in Judea, flee to the mountains; and those who are in the midst thereof, depart out: and those who are in the countries, not enter into it.
For these are the days of vengeance, that all things may be fulfilled, that are written.
But woe to them that are with child, and give suck in those days; for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword; and shall be led away captives into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the Gentiles; till the times of the nations be fulfilled.
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, by reason of the confusion of the roaring of the sea and of the waves;
Men withering away for fear, and expectation of what shall come upon the whole world. For the powers of heaven shall be moved;
And then they shall see the Son of man coming in a cloud, with great power and majesty.
But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is at hand.
And he spoke to them in a similitude. See the fig tree, and all the trees:
When they now shoot forth their fruit, you know that summer is nigh;
So you also, when you shall see these things come to pass, know that the kingdom of God is at hand.
Amen, I say to you, this generation shall not pass away, till all things be fulfilled.
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly.
For as a snare shall it come upon all that sit upon the face of the whole earth.
Watch ye, therefore, praying at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come, and to stand before the Son of man.
And in the daytime, he was teaching in the temple; but at night, going out, he abode in the mount that is called Olivet.
And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, to hear him.

Ouça St Luke 21