14. To thee, O Lord, I turn my face, to thee I direct my eyes.
15. I beg, O Lord, that thou loose me from the bond of this reproach, or else take me away from the earth.
16. Thou knowest, O Lord, that I never coveted a husband, and have kept my soul clean from all lust.
17. Never have I joined myself with them that play: neither have I made myself partaker with them that walk in lightness.
18. But a husband I consented to take, with thy fear, not with my lust.
19. And either I was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not worthy of me: because perhaps thou hast kept me for another man.
20. For thy counsel is not in man's power.