10. That day Sarah was sad at heart. She went in tears to an upstairs room in her father’s house and wanted to hang herself. But she reconsidered, saying to herself: “No! May people never reproach my father and say to him, ‘You had only one beloved daughter, but she hanged herself because of her misfortune.’ And thus would I bring my father laden with sorrow in his old age to Hades. It is far better for me not to hang myself, but to beg the Lord that I might die, and no longer have to listen to such reproaches in my lifetime.”
11. At that same time, with hands outstretched toward the window, she implored favor:“Blessed are you, merciful God!Blessed be your holy and honorable name forever!May all your works forever bless you.
12. Now to you, Lord, I have turned my faceand have lifted up my eyes.
13. Bid me to depart from the earth,never again to listen to such reproaches.