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| [1]Then Tobias toke it heauyly, & with teares began to make his prayer, |
[1]Then I being grieved did weep, and in my sorrow prayed, saying, |
| [2]Saying: O Lord thou art righteous, and all thy iudgementes are true: yea al thy wayes are mercie, faythfulnesse, and iudgement. |
[2]O Lord, thou art just, and all thy works and all thy ways are mercy and truth, and thou judgest truly and justly for ever. |
| [3]And now O Lorde be myndefull of me, and take no vengeaunce of my sinnes, neither remember my misdeedes, neither the misdeedes of my forefathers. |
[3]Remember me, and look on me, punish me not for my sins and ignorances, and the sins of mg fathers, who have sinned before thee: |
| [4]For we haue not ben obedient vnto thy commaundementes: therefore are we spoyled, brought into captiuite, into death, into derision and shame vnto all nations, among whom thou hast scattered vs. |
[4]For they obeyed not thy commandments: wherefore thou hast delivered us for a spoil, and unto captivity, and unto death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed. |
| [5]And nowe O Lorde, thy iudgementes are great: for we haue not done according to thy commaundementes, neither haue we walked innocently before thee. |
[5]And now thy judgments are many and true: deal with me according to my sins and my fathers': because we have not kept thy commandments, neither have walked in truth before thee. |
| [6]And nowe O Lord, deale with me according to thy will, and commaunde my spirite to be receaued in peace: for more expedient were it for me to die, then to liue. |
[6]Now therefore deal with me as seemeth best unto thee, and command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolved, and become earth: for it is profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and have much sorrow: command therefore that I may now be delivered out of this distress, and go into the everlasting place: turn not thy face away from me. |
| [7]At the same time it happened that Sara the daughter of Raguel at Rages a citie of the Medes, was also reproched by one of her fathers handmaydes, |
[7]It came to pass the same day, that in Ecbatane a city of Media Sara the daughter of Raguel was also reproached by her father's maids; |
| [8]That she had had seuen husbandes, which assoone as they were gone in vnto her, were slayne of the deuyll, called Asmodeus. |
[8]Because that she had been married to seven husbands, whom Asmodeus the evil spirit had killed, before they had lain with her. Dost thou not know, said they, that thou hast strangled thine husbands? thou hast had already seven husbands, neither wast thou named after any of them. |
| [9]Therfore when she reproued the mayden for her faut, she aunswered her, saying: God let vs neuer see sonne nor daughter of thee more vpon earth, thou killer of thy husbandes. |
[9]Wherefore dost thou beat us for them? if they be dead, go thy ways after them, let us never see of thee either son or daughter. |
| [10]Wilt thou slay me also, as thou hast slayne seuen men? At this voyce went Sara into an hye chamber of her house, and three dayes and three nightes she neither eate nor dranke. |
[10]Whe she heard these things, she was very sorrowful, so that she thought to have strangled herself; and she said, I am the only daughter of my father, and if I do this, it shall be a reproach unto him, and I shall bring his old age with sorrow unto the grave. |
| [11]But continued in prayer, and besought God with teares, that he would deliuer her from this rebuke. |
[11]Then she prayed toward the window, and said, Blessed art thou, O Lord my God, and thine holy and glorious name is blessed and honourable for ever: let all thy works praise thee for ever. |
| [12]Upon the thirde day it came to passe, that when she had made an end of prayer, she praysed the Lorde, |
[12]And now, O Lord, I set I mine eyes and my face toward thee, |
| [13]Saying: Blessed be thy name O God of our fathers, whiche when thou art wroth shewest mercie, and in time of trouble thou forgeuest the sinnes of them that call vpon thee. |
[13]And say, Take me out of the earth, that I may hear no more the reproach. |
| [14]Unto thee O Lorde turne I my face, vnto thee lift I vp myne eyes. |
[14]Thou knowest, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man, |
| [15]I beseche thee O Lord, loose me out of the bondes of this rebuke, or els take me vtterly away from of the earth. |
[15]And that I never polluted my name, nor the name of my father, in the land of my captivity: I am the only daughter of my father, neither hath he any child to be his heir, neither any near kinsman, nor any son of his alive, to whom I may keep myself for a wife: my seven husbands are already dead; and why should I live? but if it please not thee that I should die, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, that I hear no more reproach. |
| [16]Thou knowest Lorde that I neuer had desire vnto man, and that I haue kept my soule cleane from all vncleanly lust: |
[16]So the prayers of them both were heard before the majesty of the great God. |
| [17]I haue not kept companie with those that passe their time in sport, neither haue I made my selfe partaker with them that walke in light behauour. |
[17]And Raphael was sent to heal them both, that is, to scale away the whiteness of Tobit's eyes, and to give Sara the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodeus the evil spirit; because she belonged to Tobias by right of inheritance. The selfsame time came Tobit home, and entered into his house, and Sara the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber. |
| [18]An husband haue I consented to take, not for my pseasure, but in thy feare. |
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| [19]Nowe peraduenture eyther I haue ben vnworthy of them, or els were they vnmeete for me: for thou happyly hast kept me to another hushande. |
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| [20]For why? thy counsell is not in the power of man. |
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| [21]But euery one that serueth thee is sure of this, that if his life be in triyng, it shalbe crowned: and if he be in trouble, that God [no doubt] shal deliuer him: and if his life be in chastening, that he shall haue leaue to come vnto thy mercie. |
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| [22]For thou hast no pleasure in our dampnation: And why? after a storme thou makest the wether faire and still, after weeping & heauinesse thou geuest great ioy. |
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| [23]Thy name O God of Israel, be praysed for euer. |
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| [24]At the same time were both their prayers hearde in the sight of the maiestie of the hiest God. |
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| [25]And Raphael the holy angell of the Lorde, was sent to helpe them both, whose prayers came at one time together before God. |
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