10. Would you also kill me, just as you have already killed seven husbands?" At these words, she proceeded to an upper room of her house. And for three days and three nights, she did not eat or drink.
11. But, continuing in prayer with tears, she beseeched God, so that he would liberate her from this reproach.
12. And it happened on the third day, while she was completing her prayer, blessing the Lord,
13. that she said: "Blessed is your name, O God of our fathers, who, though you had been angry, will show mercy. And in time of tribulation, you dismiss the sins of those who call upon you.
14. To you, O Lord, I turn my face; to you, I direct my eyes.