1Then with much grief and anguish of heart I wept, and with groaning I began to pray:
2
3 your husbands! See, you have already been married to seven husbands and have not borne the name of a single one of them.
9Why do you beat us? Because your husbands are dead? Go with them! May we never see a son or daughter of yours!”
Sarah’s Prayer for Death10 I would bring my father in his old age down in sorrow to Hades. It is better for me not to hang myself but to beg the Lord that I may die, so that I will not have to listen to these reproaches for the rest of my life.”
11 forever;
let all your works bless you forever.
12 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
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.”
An Answer to Prayer16At that very moment, the prayers of both of them were heard in the glorious presence of God.
17 and Sarah, daughter of Raguel, by giving her in marriage to Tobias son of Tobit, and by setting her free from the wicked demon Asmodeus. For Tobias was entitled to have her before all others who had desired to marry her. At the same time that Tobit returned from the courtyard into his house, Sarah daughter of Raguel came down from her upper room.
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