Tobit 3:9-11

Good News Translation

⁹ Why should you take it out on us? Why don't you go and join your dead husbands? I hope we never see a child of yours!

¹⁰ Sarah was so depressed that she burst into tears and went upstairs determined to hang herself. But when she thought it over, she said to herself,
    No, I won't do it! People would insult my father and say,
    You had only one child, a daughter whom you loved dearly, but she hanged herself because she felt so miserable. Such grief would bring my gray-haired father to his grave, and I would be responsible. I won't kill myself; I'll just beg the Lord to let me die. Then I won't have to listen to those insults any longer!

God of mercy, worthy of our praise,
    may your name always be honored,
    may all your creation praise you forever.