Quotes from Prayer of Manasses

Quotations follow the King James Version translation (Oxford University Press, 1611) — our recommended edition.

1. 2

   Now therefore I bow the knee of mine heart, beseeching thee of grace.

2. 3

   but thou hast appointed repentance unto me that am a sinner.

3. 4

   for I have sinned above the number of the sands of the sea.

4. 5

   wherefore, I humbly beseech thee, forgive me, O Lord, forgive me, and destroy me not with mine iniquities.

5. 6

   O Lord, Almighty God of our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and of their righteous seed.

6. 7

   Therefore I will praise thee for ever all the days of my life: for all the powers of the heavens do praise thee, and thine is the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

7. 8

   for the majesty of thy glory cannot be borne, and thine angry threatening toward sinners is importable.