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And now, O Lord, great are thy judgments, because we have not done according to thy precepts, and have not walked sincerely before thee:
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And now, O Lord, do with me according to thy will, and command my spirit to be received in peace: for it is better for me to die, than to live.
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Now it happened on the same day, that Sara daughter of Raguel, in Rages a city of the Medes, received a reproach from one of her father's servant maids,
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Because she had been given to seven husbands, and a devil named Asmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her.
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So when she reproved the maid for her fault, she answered her, saying: May we never see son, or daughter of thee upon the earth, thou murderer of thy husbands.
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Wilt thou kill me also, as thou hast already killed seven husbands? At these words she went into an upper chamber of her house: and for three days and three nights did neither eat nor drink:
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But continuing in prayer with tears besought God, that he would deliver her from this reproach.
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And it came to pass on the third day, when she was making an end of her prayer, blessing the Lord,
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She said: Blessed is thy name, O God of our fathers: who when thou hast been angry, wilt shew mercy, and in the time of tribulation forgivest the sins of them that call upon thee.
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To thee, O Lord, I turn my face, to thee I direct my eyes.
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I beg, O Lord, that thou loose me from the bond of this reproach, or else take me away from the earth.