Tobit:3

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* Then I being grieved did weep , and in my sorrow prayed , saying , * O Lord , thou art just , and all thy works and all thy ways are mercy and truth , and thou judgest truly and justly for ever . * Remember me , and look on me , punish me not for my sins and ignorances , and the sins of mg fathers , who have sinned before thee : * For they obeyed not thy commandments : wherefore thou hast delivered us for a spoil , and unto captivity , and unto death , and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed . * And now thy judgments are many and true : deal with me according to my sins and my fathers ': because we have not kept thy commandments , neither have walked in truth before thee . * Now therefore deal with me as seemeth best unto thee , and command my spirit to be taken from me , that I may be dissolved , and become earth : for it is profitable for me to die rather than to live , because I have heard false reproaches , and have much sorrow : command therefore that I may now be delivered out of this distress , and go into the everlasting place : turn not thy face away from me . * It came to pass the same day , that in Ecbatane a city of Media Sara the daughter of Raguel was also reproached by her father 's maids ; * Because that she had been married to seven husbands , whom Asmodeus the evil spirit had killed , before they had lain with her . Dost thou not know , said they , that thou hast strangled thine husbands ? thou hast had already seven husbands , neither wast thou named after any of them . * Wherefore dost thou beat us for them ? if they be dead , go thy ways after them , let us never see of thee either son or daughter . * Whe she heard these things , she was very sorrowful , so that she thought to have strangled herself ; and she said , I am the only daughter of my father , and if I do this , it shall be a reproach unto him , and I shall bring his old age with sorrow unto the grave . * Then she prayed toward the window , and said , Blessed art thou , O Lord my God , and thine holy and glorious name is blessed and honourable for ever : let all thy works praise thee for ever . * And now , O Lord , I set I mine eyes and my face toward thee , * And say , Take me out of the earth , that I may hear no more the reproach . * Thou knowest , Lord , that I am pure from all sin with man , * And that I never polluted my name , nor the name of my father , in the land of my captivity : I am the only daughter of my father , neither hath he any child to be his heir , neither any near kinsman , nor any son of his alive , to whom I may keep myself for a wife : my seven husbands are already dead ; and why should I live ? but if it please not thee that I should die , command some regard to be had of me , and pity taken of me , that I hear no more reproach . * So the prayers of them both were heard before the majesty of the great God . * And Raphael was sent to heal them both , that is , to scale away the whiteness of Tobit 's eyes , and to give Sara the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit ; and to bind Asmodeus the evil spirit ; because she belonged to Tobias by right of inheritance . The selfsame time came Tobit home , and entered into his house , and Sara the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber .

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