44 Hour after hour and day after day during these thirty years I pleaded with the Most High by night and day.
45 After thirty years God heard your servant and saw how dejected I was. He attended to my distress and gave me a son. I rejoiced greatly over him, as did my husband and all my fellow citizens, and we greatly honored the mighty one.
46 I nourished my son with much labor,
47 and when he grew up, I came to take a wife for him and set the day of the marriage feast.