1 Then I being grieved did weep, and in my sorrow prayed, saying,

1 Tunc Tobias ingemuit, et cœpit orare cum lacrimis,

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.

2 dicens: Justus es, Domine, et omnia judicia tua justa sunt,
et omnes viæ tuæ, misericordia, et veritas, et judicium.

3 Remember me, and look on me, punish me not for my sins and ignorances, and the sins of my fathers, who have sinned before thee:

3 Et nunc Domine, memor esto mei,
et ne vindictam sumas de peccatis meis,
neque reminiscaris delicta mea, vel parentum meorum.

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.

4 Quoniam non obedivimus præceptis tuis,
ideo traditi sumus in direptionem,
et captivitatem, et mortem,
et in fabulam, et in improperium omnibus nationibus
in quibus dispersisti nos.

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.

5 Et nunc Domine, magna judicia tua,
quia non egimus secundum præcepta tua,
et non ambulavimus sinceriter coram te.

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.

6 Et nunc Domine, secundum voluntatem tuam fac mecum,
et præcipe in pace recipi spiritum meum:
expedit enim mihi mori magis quam vivere.

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;

7 ¶ Eadem itaque die, contigit ut Sara filia Raguelis in Rages civitate Medorum et ipsa audiret improperium ab una ex ancillis patris sui,

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.

8 quoniam tradita fuerat septem viris, et dæmonium nomine Asmodæus occiderat eos, mox ut ingressi fuissent ad eam.

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.

9 Ergo cum pro culpa sua increparet puellam, respondit ei, dicens: Amplius ex te non videamus filium aut filiam super terram, interfectrix virorum tuorum.

10 When 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.

10 Numquid et occidere me vis, sicut jam occidisti septem viros? Ad hanc vocem perrexit in superius cubiculum domus suæ: et tribus diebus, et tribus noctibus non manducavit, neque bibit:

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.

11 sed in oratione persistens cum lacrimis deprecabatur Deum, ut ab isto improperio liberaret eam.

12 And now, O Lord, I set mine eyes and my face toward thee,

12 Factum est autem die tertia, dum compleret orationem, benedicens Dominum

13 And say, Take me out of the earth, that I may hear no more the reproach.

13 dixit: Benedictum est nomen tuum, Deus patrum nostrorum: qui cum iratus fueris, misericordiam facies, et in tempore tribulationis peccata dimittis his qui invocant te.

14 Thou knowest, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man,

14 Ad te, Domine, faciem meam converto; ad te oculos meos dirigo.

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.

15 Peto, Domine, ut de vinculo improperii hujus absolvas me, aut certe desuper terram eripias me.

16 So the prayers of them both were heard before the majesty of the great God.

16 Tu scis, Domine, quia numquam concupivi virum, et mundam servavi animam meam ab omni concupiscentia.

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.

17 Numquam cum ludentibus miscui me, neque cum his qui in levitate ambulant, participem me præbui.

18 Virum autem cum timore tuo, non cum libidine mea, consensi suscipere.

19 Et, aut ego indigna fui illis, aut illi forsitan me non fuerunt digni, quia forsitan viro alii conservasti me.

20 Non est enim in hominis potestate consilium tuum.

21 Hoc autem pro certo habet omnis qui te colit: quod vita ejus, si in probatione fuerit, coronabitur; si autem in tribulatione fuerit, liberabitur; et si in correptione fuerit, ad misericordiam tuam venire licebit.

22 Non enim delectaris in perditionibus nostris: quia post tempestatem tranquillum facis, et post lacrimationem et fletum, exsultationem infundis.

23 Sit nomen tuum, Deus Israël, benedictum in sæcula.

24 In illo tempore exauditæ sunt preces amborum in conspectu gloriæ summi Dei:

25 et missus est angelus Domini sanctus Raphaël ut curaret eos ambos, quorum uno tempore sunt orationes in conspectu Domini recitatæ.