37. Notwithstanding the law perishes not, but remains in its honor.
38. And when I spoke these things in my heart, I looked about me with mine eyes, and upon the right side I saw a woman, and, behold, she mourned and wept with a loud voice, and was much grieved in mind, and her clothes were tore, and she had ashes upon her head.
39. Then let I my thoughts go wherein I was occupied, and turned me to her,
40. and said to her, Why do you weep? and why are you grieved in your mind?
41. And she said to me, Let me alone, my Lord, that I may bewail myself, and add to my sorrow, for I am sore vexed in my mind, and brought very low.
42. And I said to her, What aileth you? Tell me.
43. She said to me, I your servant was barren, and had no child, though I had a husband thirty years.
44. And every hour and every day these thirty years did I make my prayer to the Most High day and night.
45. And it came to pass after thirty years that God heard me your handmaid, and looked upon my low estate, and considered my trouble, and gave me a son: and I rejoiced in him greatly, I and my husband, and all my neighbors: and we gave great honor to the Mighty.
46. And I nourished him with great travail.
47. So when he grew up, and I came to take him a wife, I made him a feast day.