38 While I was saying these things in my heart, I looked with my eyes and saw a woman to my right. She was lamenting and crying with a loud voice, and she was experiencing deep grief. Her clothes were torn, and there were ashes on her head.
39 I dismissed my own thoughts, turned to her, and said,
40 "Why are you weeping, and why do you grieve so deeply?"
41 She said to me, "Leave me alone, sir, so that I may weep for myself and continue in my grief, because I am very bitter inside, and I am depressed."
42 I said to her, "What have you suffered? Tell me!"
43 She said to me: “I, your servant, was infertile, and I hadn’t given birth, although I had a husband for thirty years.
44 Hour after hour and day after day during these thirty years I pleaded with the Most High by night and day.