Prayer of Manasseh in the Septuagint

Opening of Prayer of Manasseh

1 O Lord Almighty, the God of our fathers Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and of their righteous seed;

2 that hast made the heaven and the earth with all their adornment;

3 that hast bound the sea with the word of thy commandment; that hast closed the abyss and sealed it with thy fearful and glorious name;

4 whom all things revere and tremble before the face of thy power,

5 because the magnificence of thy glory is unendurable and irresistible the wrath of thy threatening against sinners:

6 the mercy of thy promise is both immeasurable and inscrutable;

7 for thou art the Lord most high, compassionate, longsuffering, and most merciful, repenting of the evils of men. Thou, Lord, according to the abundance of thy goodness, hast proclaimed repentance and forgiveness to those that have sinned against thee, and in the multitude of thy kindnesses thou hast decreed for sinners repentance unto salvation.

8 Surely thou, O Lord, the God of the just, hast not appointed repentance for the just, for Abraham and Isaac and Jacob who have not sinned against thee; but thou hast appointed repentance for me a sinner:

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