Tobit 3
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1THEN I, being sorowful, did wepe, & in my sorowe prayed, saying, 2O Lord, thou art iuste, & all thy workes, & all thy wayes are mercie & trueth, and thou iudgest truely & iustely for euer. 3Remember me & loke on me, nether punish me according to my sins or mine ignorances or my fathers, which haue sinned before thee. 4For thei haue not obeied thy commandements: wherefore thou hast deliuered vs for a spoile, & vnto captiuitie, and to death, and for a prouerbe of a reproche to all them among whome we are dispersed, and now thou hast manie and iuste causes, 5To do with me according to my sinnes, & my fathers, because we haue not kept thy commandements, nether haue walked in trueth before thee. 6Now therefore deale with me as semeth best vnto thee, & commande my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolued, & become earth: for it is better for me to dy then to liue, because I haue heard false reproches, & am verie sorowful: commande therefore that I may be dissolued out of this distresse, and go into the euerlasting place: turne not thy face away from me. 7It came to passe the same day that in Ecbatane a citie of Media Sarra the daughter of Raguel was also reproched by her fathers maides, 8Because she had bene maryed to seuen housbands, whome Asmodeus the euil spirit had killed, before that they had lien with her. Doest thou not knowe, said they, that thou hast strangled thine housbands? thou hast had now seuen housbands, nether wast thou named after anie of them. 9Wherefore doest thou beat vs for them? if they be dead, go thy wayes hence to them, that we may neuer se of thee ether sonne or daughter. 10When she heard these things, she was verie sorowful, so that she thoght to haue strangled her self. And she said, I am the onely daughter of my father, & if I do this I shal sclander him, and shal bring his age to the graue with sorowe. 11Then she prayed towarde the windowe & said, Blessed art thou, ô Lord my God, and thine holie & glorious Name is blessed, and honorable for euer: let all thy workes praise thee for euer. 12And now, ô Lord, I set mine eyes, & my face toward thee, 13And say, Take me out of the earth, that I may heare no more anie reproche. 14Thou knowest, ô Lord, that I am pure from all sinne with man, 15And that I haue neuer polluted my name, nor the name of my father in the land of my captiuitie: I am the onely daughter of my father, nether hathe he anie man child to be his heire, nether anie nere kinsman or childe borne of him, to whome I may kepe my self for a wife: my seuen housbands are now dead, & why shulde I liue? But if it please not thee that I shulde dye, commande to loke on me, and to pitie me that I do no more heare reproche. 16So the prayers of them bothe were heard before the maiestie of the great God. 17And Raphael was sent to heale them bothe, that is, to take away the whitenes of Tobits eyes, & to giue Sarra the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the sonne of Tobit, & to binde Asmodeus the euil spirit because she belonged to Tobias by right. The self same time came Tobit home, and entred into his house, and Sarra the daughter of Raguel came downe from her chamber.