3 ¹¹ So she prayed by her window and said, "Blessed are you, O Lord my God, and blessed is your holy and honoured name for ever. May all your works praise you for ever. 3 ¹² And now, O Lord, I have turned my eyes and my face toward you. 3 ¹³ Command that I be released from the earth and that I hear reproach no more. 3 ¹⁴ You know, O Lord, that I am innocent of any sin with man, 3 ¹⁵ and that I did not stain my name or the name of my father in the land of my captivity. I am my father's only child, and he has no child to be his heir, no near kinsman or kinsman's son for whom I should keep myself as wife. Already seven husbands of mine are dead. Why should I live? But if it be not pleasing to you to take my life, command that respect be shown to me and pity be taken upon me, and that I hear reproach no more."