39. I dismissed my own thoughts, turned to her, and said,
40. "Why are you weeping, and why do you grieve so deeply?"
41. She said to me, "Leave me alone, sir, so that I may weep for myself and continue in my grief, because I am very bitter inside, and I am depressed."
42. I said to her, "What have you suffered? Tell me!"
43. She said to me: “I, your servant, was infertile, and I hadn’t given birth, although I had a husband for thirty years.
44. Hour after hour and day after day during these thirty years I pleaded with the Most High by night and day.
45. After thirty years God heard your servant and saw how dejected I was. He attended to my distress and gave me a son. I rejoiced greatly over him, as did my husband and all my fellow citizens, and we greatly honored the mighty one.
46. I nourished my son with much labor,
47. and when he grew up, I came to take a wife for him and set the day of the marriage feast.