1. Then Tobit sighed, and he began to pray with tears,
2. saying, "O Lord, you are just and all your judgments are just, and all your ways are mercy, and truth, and judgment.
3. And now, O Lord, remember me, and do not take vengeance for my sins, and do not call to mind my offenses, nor those of my parents.
4. For we have not obeyed your precepts, and so we have been handed over to plundering and to captivity, and to death, and to mockery, and as a disgrace before all the nations, among which you have dispersed us.