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Lord God of my father Simeon, which gavest to him a sword into defense of (or from) (the) aliens, that were defoulers in their defouling (or defiling), and made naked the hip of a virgin [or the maiden] into her own confusion;

and thou gavest the women of them into prey, and the daughters of them into captivity, and all the prey into parting [or division] to thy servants, that loved fervently thy fervent love; Lord, I beseech thee, help thou me a widow.

For thou madest the former things, and those things thou thoughtest to make afterward, and this thing is made to us, which thou wouldest.

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