5. And now, O Lord, great are your judgments. For we have not acted according to your precepts, and we have not walked sincerely before you.
6. And now, O Lord, do with me according to your will, and order my spirit to be received in peace. For it is more expedient for me to die, than to live."
7. And so, on the same day, it happened that Sarah, the daughter of Raguel, in Rages, a city of the Medes, also heard a reproach from one of her father's servant maids.
8. For she had been given to seven husbands, and a demon named Asmodeus had killed them, as soon as they had approached her.
9. Therefore, when she corrected the maid for her fault, she answered her, saying, "May we never see son or daughter from you upon the earth, you murderess of your husbands.
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.
15. I beg you, O Lord, that you may absolve me from the chains of this reproach, or at least take me away from the earth.