Prayer of Manasseh 1 — LXXSB
1Verse 1O LORD Almighty, the God of our fathers Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and of their righteous seed;Verse 2that have made the heaven and the earth with all their adornment;Verse 3that have bound the sea with the word of your commandment; that have closed the abyss and sealed it with your fearful and glorious name;Verse 4whom all things revere and tremble before the face of your power,Verse 5because the magnificence of your glory is unendurable and irresistible the wrath of your threatening against sinners:Verse 6the mercy of your promise is both immeasurable and inscrutable;Verse 7for you are the Lord most high, compassionate, longsuffering, and most merciful, repenting of the evils of men. You, Lord, according to the abundance of your goodness, have proclaimed repentance and forgiveness to those that have sinned against you, and in the multitude of your kindnesses you have decreed for sinners repentance to salvation.Verse 8Surely you, O Lord, the God of the just, have not appointed repentance for the just, for Abraham and Isaac and Jacob who have not sinned against you; but you have appointed repentance for me a sinner:Verse 9for I have sinned above the number of the sand of the sea. My transgressions are multiplied, O Lord, they are multiplied, and I am not worthy to look at or see the height of heaven, for the multitude of my iniquities,Verse 10being bowed down by many iron bonds, so that I can’t uplift my head, and there is no release for me, because I have provoked your anger, and have done evil before you, not doing your will, nor keeping your commandments, but setting up abominations and multiplying offences.Verse 11And now I bend the knee of my heart, beseeching your goodness:Verse 12I have sinned, Lord, I have sinned, and I acknowledge my transgressions:Verse 13but I pray and beseech you, release me, Lord, release me, and destroy me not with my transgressions; keep not evils for me in anger for ever, nor condemn me to the lowest parts of the earth: because you are God, the God of the repenting; and in me you will show all your benevolence, for that me unworthy you will save, according to your great mercy:Verse 14and I will praise you continually all the days of my life: for all the hosts of the heavens sings to you, and your is the glory for ever and ever. Amen.