Tobit 3:1–6

Then I being grieved did weep, and in my sorrow prayed, saying, ^2aO Lord, thou art just, and all thy works and all thy ways are mercy and truth, and thou judgest truly and justly for ever. ³Remember me, and look on me, punish me not for my sins and ^bignorances, and the sins of my fathers, who have sinned before thee: ⁴for they obeyed not thy commandments: wherefore thou hast delivered us ^cfor a spoil, and unto captivity, and unto death, and for ^da proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed. ⁵And 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. ⁶Now therefore ^edeal with me as seemeth best unto thee, and ^fcommand my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolved, and become earth: ^ffor ^git is profitable for me to die rather than to live, because ^hI 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: ⁱturn not thy face away from me.