For Your sake Sarah grew jealous—though jealousy was not her usual way—toward the mother of the boy. She was not jealous where people ordinarily become jealous; even the chaste woman grew jealous of a servant woman for Your sake, O Son of the free.
Refrain: From Sarah’s house and also from the nations, praise to You.
For Your manifestation Isaac prayed over his wife. A wolf and a lamb were conceived together. This showed that Abraham did not possess many blessed seeds: his Seed is one, the One who blesses all.
If Abraham had many blessed seeds, then Esau and Ishmael—the firstborns of Abraham’s house—would also be among them. Yet the two accursed firstborns showed that the blessed Seed is one.
Sarah loved You, Son of the King, and rejected a king. A royal household did not please her; the noble woman wandered with a wandering man because she saw Your manifestation hidden in him.
No one promised her that through ninety years she should wait for You. You came to Sarah in her ninetieth year, and You came to Abraham in his hundredth. You gave … [source lacuna].