The Prayer of Manasses king of Juda

(when he was holden captive in Babylon)

O' Lord Almighty, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and of that righteous seed of them: which hast made heaven and earth, with all the ornament thereof, which hast ordained the sea by the word of thy commandment: which hast shut up the deep, and hast sealed it for thy fearful and laudable (praiseworthy) name, which all men fear, and tremble before the face of thy virtue, and for the anger of thy threatening the which is importable (significant) to sinners. But the mercy of thy promise is great and unsearchable: for thou art the Lord God most high, above all the earth, longsuffering, and exceedingly merciful, and repentant for the malice of men.

Thou Lord after thy goodness hast promised repentance of the remission of sins:

and thou that art the God of the righteous hast not put repentance to the righteous, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, unto them that have not sinned against thee: But because I have sinned above the number of the sands of the sea, and that mine iniquities are multiplied, I am humbled with many bands of iron, and there is in me no breathing.

I have provoked thine Anger, and done evil before thee, in committing abominations and multiplying offenses. And now I bow the knees of my heart, *requiting (to return for) goodness of thee O' Lord.

I have sinned Lord, I have sinned, and know my iniquity.

I desire thee by prayer, O' Lord forgive me: forgive me and destroy me not with mine iniquities, neither do thou always remember mine evils to punish them, but save me ( which am unworthy ) after thy great mercy: and I will praise thee everlastingly, all the days of my life for all the virtue of heaven praiseth thee, and unto thee belongeth the glory, world without end. Amen.

The end of the Prayer of Manasses king of Juda