“Accept the sacrifice of my confession as the offering of my tongue, which you have formed and stimulated to confess to your name. Heal all my bones and let them say, "Lord, who is like you?" Not that he who confesses to you teaches you anything of what goes on within him, for the heart that is closed does not shut you…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Confessions 5.1.1
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12And now, O Lord, I set mine eyes and my face toward thee,
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10Whe she heard these things, she was very sorrowful, so that she thought to have strangled herself; and she said, I am the only daughter of my father, and if I do this, it shall be a reproach unto him, and I shall bring his old age with sorrow unto the grave.
11Then she prayed toward the window, and said, Blessed art thou, O Lord my God, and thine holy and glorious name is blessed and honourable for ever: let all thy works praise thee for ever.
— Tobit 3:12 —
13And say, Take me out of the earth, that I may hear no more the reproach.
14Thou knowest, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man,