9 Are you beating us because they have all died? Go with them, and may we never see a son or daughter of yours!"
10 On that day Sarah was deeply upset in her heart and wept. She went upstairs to a room in her father’s house, and planned to hang herself. But she had second thoughts and said, "They will never insult my father by saying to him, ‘You had but one dearly loved daughter, and she hanged herself because of her troubles.’ If I did this, I would bring my old father down to the grave in sorrow. It is better for me not to hang myself, but to beg of the Lord to let me die so that I no longer hear insults during my lifetime."
11 At that moment, she stretched her hands out toward the window and prayed:"You are blessed, merciful God, and your name is blessed forever! May all your works forever praise you!
12 And now, Lord, I lift my face and my eyes toward you.
13 Speak the word, and set me free from the earth so that I don’t have to hear insults anymore.
14 You know, Master, that I’m pure from any uncleanness from relations with a man.
15 You know that I haven’t tarnished my name or my father’s name in this country where we are captives. I’m my father’s only child. He has no other child to be his heir, nor does he have a brother or near relative for whom I can keep myself as a wife. Seven have died on me already, so why should I go on living? And if you don’t like the idea of killing me, take notice, at least, of how they insult me."