9. Wherefore do you scourge us? if they be dead, go your ways with them; let us never see of you either son or daughter.
10. When she heard these things, she was grieved exceedingly, so that she thought to have hanged herself: and she said, I am the only daughter of my father; if I do this, it shall be a reproach to him, and I shall bring down his old age with sorrow to the grave.
11. And she prayed by the window, and said, Blessed are you, O Lord my God, and blessed is your holy and honorable name for ever: let all your works praise you for ever.
12. And now, Lord, I have set mine eyes and my face toward you:
13. command that I be released from the earth, and that I no more hear reproach.
14. You know, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man,
15. and that I never polluted my name, nor the name of my father, in the land of my captivity: I am the only daughter of my father, and he has no child that shall be his heir, nor brother near him, nor son belonging to him, that I should keep myself for a wife to him: seven husbands of mine are dead already; why should I live? And if it pleases you not to kill me, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, and that I hear no more reproach.