O Lord God of my father Simeon, to whom thou gavest a sword to take vengeance of the strangers, who loosened the girdle of a maid to defile her, and discovered the thigh to her shame, and polluted her virginity to her reproach; for thou saidst, It shall not be so; and yet they did so:
O Lord, God of my ancestor Simeon, to whom you gave a sword to take revenge on the foreigners who loosened a virgin's belt to defile her, exposing her body in shame and violating her purity to disgrace her — for you said this must not happen, and yet they did it —
