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At that same time, with hands outstretched toward the window, she prayed and said, "Blessed are you, merciful God! Blessed is your name forever; let all your works praise you forever.
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And now, Lord, I turn my face to you, and raise my eyes toward you.
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Command that I be released from the earth and not listen to such reproaches any more.
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You know, O Master, that I am innocent of any defilement with a man,
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and that I have not disgraced my name or the name of my father in the land of my exile. I am my father's only child; he has no other child to be his heir; and he has no close relative or other kindred for whom I should keep myself as wife. Already seven husbands of mine have died. Why should I still live? But if it is not pleasing to you, O Lord, to take my life, hear me in my disgrace."