<p class="poetry">I weep and refrain from eating food,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">which causes others to insult me.<n id="2" />p>

He replied, &#8220;While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept because I thought,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Perhaps<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> will show pity and the child will live.

<p class="bodytext">When I heard these things I sat down abruptly,<n id="1" /> crying and mourning for several days. I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

<p class="poetry"><v id="(8:23)" /><n id="1" /> I wish that my head were a well full of water<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and my eyes were a fountain full of tears!p> <p class="poetry">If they were, I could cry day and nightp> <p class="poetry">for those of my dear people<n id="3" /> who have been killed.p>

She then said to her father, &#8220;Please grant me this one wish.<n id="1" /> For two months allow me to walk through the hills with my friends and mourn my virginity.&#8221;<n id="2" />