1Then Tobias sighed, and began to pray with tears,stylusNumbers 24:7, Numbers 24:7, Daniel 6:2, Esther 5:11, Daniel 6:22Saying, Thou art just, O Lord, and all thy judgments are just, and all thy ways mercy, and truth, and judgment:stylusEsther 2:19, Psalms 15:4, Philippians 2:10, Esther 5:9, Genesis 41:433And now, O Lord, think of me, and take not revenge of my sins, neither remember my offences, nor those of my parents.stylusEsther 3:2, Esther 3:2, Matthew 15:2, Matthew 15:3, Exodus 1:174For we have not obeyed thy commandments, therefore are we delivered to spoil and to captivity, and death, and are made a fable, and a reproach to all nations, amongst which thou hast scattered us.stylusGenesis 39:10, Genesis 39:10, Jonah 1:9, Daniel 6:20, Daniel 6:285And now, O Lord, great are thy judgments, because we have not done according to thy precepts, and have not walked sincerely before thee.stylusDaniel 3:19, Esther 5:9, Daniel 3:19, Esther 5:9, Proverbs 21:246And now, O Lord, do with me according to thy will, and command my spirit to be received in peace: for it is better for me to die, than to live.stylusPsalms 83:4, Psalms 83:4, Revelation 12:12, Revelation 12:127Now it happened on the same day, that Sara daughter of Raguel, in Rages a city of the Medes, received a reproach from one of her father's servant maids,stylusEzra 6:15, Ezra 6:15, Ezekiel 21:21, Ezekiel 21:22, Proverbs 16:338Because she had been given to seven husbands and a devil named Asmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her.stylusActs 16:20, Acts 16:21, Acts 16:20, Acts 16:21, Ezra 4:129So when she reproved the maid for her fault, she answered her, saying: May we never see son, or daughter of thee upon the earth, thou murderer of thy husbands.stylusGenesis 23:16, Genesis 23:16, Matthew 18:24, Matthew 18:2410Wilt thou kill me also, as thou hast already killed seven husbands? At these words, she went into an upper chamber of her house: and for three days and three nights did neither eat nor drink:stylusGenesis 41:42, Esther 8:2, Genesis 41:42, Esther 8:2, Esther 7:611But continuing in prayer with tears besought God, that he would deliver her from this reproach.stylusJeremiah 40:4, Luke 23:25, Jeremiah 26:14, Psalms 73:7, Jeremiah 40:412And it came to pass on the third day when she was making an end of her prayer, blessing the Lord,stylus1 Kings 21:8, 1 Kings 21:8, Esther 1:22, Esther 1:22, Daniel 6:1513She said: Blessed is thy name, O God of our fathers, who when thou hast been angry, wilt shew mercy, and in the time of tribulation forgivest the sins of them that call upon thee.stylusEsther 9:10, 2 Chronicles 30:6, Esther 9:10, 2 Chronicles 30:6, 1 Samuel 15:314To thee, O Lord, I turn my face, to thee I direct my eyes.stylusEsther 8:13, Esther 8:14, Esther 8:13, Esther 8:1415I beg, O Lord, that thou loose me from the bond of this reproach, or else take me away from the earth.stylusEsther 8:15, Esther 8:15, John 16:20, John 16:20, Amos 6:616Thou knowest, O Lord, that I never coveted a husband, and have kept my soul clean from all lust.stylus17Never have I joined myself with them that play: neither have I made myself partaker with them that walk in lightness.stylus18But a husband I consented to take, with thy fear, not with my lust.stylus19And either I was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not worthy of me: because perhaps thou hast kept me for another man,stylus20For thy counsel is not in man's power.stylus21But this every one is sure of that worshippeth thee, that his life, if it be under trial, shall be crowned and if it be under tribulation, it shall be delivered: and if it be under correction, it shall be allowed to come to thy mercy.stylus22For thou art not delighted in our being lost, because after a storm thou makest a calm, and after tears and weeping thou pourest in joyfulness.stylus23Be thy name, O God of Israel, blessed for ever,stylus24At that time the prayers of them both were heard in the sight of the glory of the most high God:stylus25And the holy angel of the Lord, Raphael was sent to heal them both, whose prayers at one time were rehearsed in the sight of the Lord.stylus
