Tobit 3:11–15

¹¹At that same time, with hands outstretched toward the window, she prayed and said,

“Blessed are you, merciful God!

Blessed is your name^v forever;

let all your works bless you forever.^*

¹²And now,^w my face is toward you,

and I have raised my eyes.^*

¹³Command that I be released from the earth

and not listen to such reproaches any more.

¹⁴You know, O Master, that I am innocent^x

of any defilement with a man

¹⁵and 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.”