11. At that same time, with hands outstretched toward the window, she implored favor:“Blessed are you, merciful God!Blessed be your holy and honorable name forever!May all your works forever bless you.
12. Now to you, Lord, I have turned my faceand have lifted up my eyes.
13. Bid me to depart from the earth,never again to listen to such reproaches.
14. “You know, Master, that I am cleanof any defilement with a man.
15. I have never sullied my own nameor my father’s name in the land of my captivity.“I am my father’s only daughter,and he has no other child to be his heir,Nor does he have a kinsman or close relativewhose wife I should wait to become.Seven husbands of mine have already died.Why then should I live any longer?But if it does not please you, Lord, to take my life,look favorably upon me and have pity on me,that I may never again listen to such reproaches!”