3:1. I was concerned and wept
and
in my sadness I prayed:
3:2. O Lord, you are righteous
and
all Your deeds
and
all Your ways
are
merciful and pure
and
You are the true
and
just judge for eternity.
3:3. Please remember me
and
watch over me
and
forgive me
for
my errors and ignorance
and
the errors of my fathers
who
have erred before You.
3:4
For they did not
follow
Your instructions
so
this has damaged us
and
imprisoned us to die
all
for the wisdom of reproach
among
all the people
among
whom we are spread.
3:5. And yet Your judgments
are
pure and justified
against
me according
to
my errors and my fathers’
because
we did not follow
Your
instructions
nor
have we walked
in
truth before You.
3:6. So therefore be just to me
and
take my spirit
away
from my body
so
my presence here will dissolve
and
my body will become earth.
Because
it is better
to
die than to live
for
I have heard many lies
and
have much sorrow.
Therefore
instruct me
so
that I might be delivered
from
this distress
and
go to the eternal place.
Please
don’t turn away from me.
3:7. Then the same day
in
the
in
of region of Sara
the
daughter of Raguel
was
also shamed
by
her father’s maids.
3:8. For she had married
a
total of seven husbands
and
they were killed by Asmodeus
who
had a wicked spirit
before
they slept with her.
Did
you not know they said?
That
he strangled your husbands?
You
had seven husbands
but
you were not given
any
of their names.
3:9. Why would you beat us
because
of them?
If
they are dead
then
go your own way
and
not let us see you
or
your son or daughter.
3:10. When she heard these things
she
was very sad
so
she thought about suicide.
But
then she said:
I
am the only daughter
of
my father.
If
I do this
it
will only bring him shame
and
I will carry his sadness
with
me into the grave.
3:11. Then she prayed
leaning
into a window:
O
Lord my God
You
are sacred
and
Your holy and glorious Name
is
sacred and praised forever.
May
all Your deeds
be
praised for eternity.
3:12. Now, O Lord, I focus my eyes
and
turn toward thee.
3:13.
And I ask:
Remove
me from this earth
so
I may no longer hear
of
this shame.
3:14. Surely Lord you know
that
I am not wicked to humans.
3:15. And that I never corrupted
my
name nor my father’s name
within
the land I captured.
I
am my father’s only daughter
he
had no other children
nor
other family members
nor
any son born to him
who
could have married
someone
like me.
But
my seven husbands
have
already died
so
why should I live?
If
this doesn’t please You
then
I should die.
Give
me some instructions
and
take pity on me
so
that I will feel no more shame.
3:16. Thus both their prayers were heard
by
the majesty of the Supreme Being.
3:17. Then Raphael was sent
to
heal them both
and
to cleanse Tobit’s eyes
and
give Sara the daughter of Raguel
as
a wife to Tobias
the
son of Tobit
and
to bind Asmodeus
who
was a wicked spirit
because
she belonged to Tobias
by
right of inheritance.
During
this time Tobit returned
and
entered into his house
then
Sara the daughter of Raguel
came
down from her upstairs room.
