Prayer of Manasses 1 Comparison: KJV with Apocrypha vs Douay-Rheims

Prayer of Manasses 1

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

²who hast made heaven and earth, with all the ornament thereof;

³who hast bound the sea by the word of thy commandment; who hast shut up the deep, and sealed it by thy terrible and glorious name;

⁴whom all men fear, and tremble before thy power; for the majesty of thy glory cannot be borne, and thine angry threatening toward sinners is importable:

⁵but thy merciful promise is unmeasurable and unsearchable;

⁶for thou art the most high Lord, of great compassion, longsuffering, very merciful, and repentest of the evils of men. Thou, O Lord, according to thy great goodness hast promised repentance and forgiveness to them that have sinned against thee: and of thine infinite mercies hast appointed repentance unto sinners, that they may be saved.

⁷Thou therefore, O Lord, that art the God of the just, hast not appointed repentance to the just, as to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, which have not sinned against thee; but thou hast appointed repentance unto me that am a sinner:

⁸for I have sinned above the number of the sands of the sea. My transgressions, O Lord, are multiplied: my transgressions are multiplied, and I am not worthy to behold and see the height of heaven for the multitude of mine iniquities.

⁹I am bowed down with many iron bands, that I cannot lift up mine head, neither have any release: for I have provoked thy wrath, and done evil before thee: I did not thy will, neither kept I thy commandments: I have set up abominations, and have multiplied offences.

¹⁰Now therefore I bow the knee of mine heart, beseeching thee of grace.

¹¹I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned, and I acknowledge mine iniquities:

¹²wherefore, I humbly beseech thee, forgive me, O Lord, forgive me, and destroy me not with mine iniquites. Be not angry with me for ever, by reserving evil for me; neither condemn me to the lower parts of the earth. For thou art the God, even the God of them that repent;

¹³and in me thou wilt shew all thy goodness: for thou wilt save me, that am unworthy, according to thy great mercy.

¹⁴Therefore 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.

Prayer of Manasses 1

¹LORD omnipotent, God of our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, and of their iust seede:

²which didst make heauen and earth with al their furniture:

³which hast bound the sea with the word of thy precept: which hast shut vp the depth, and hast signed it with thy terrible & laudable name:

⁴whom al thinges do feare, and at whose face al thinges do tremble:

⁵because the magnificence of thy glorie is importable, and the wrath of thy threatening vpon sinners is vnsusteinable.

⁶But the mercie of thy promise is great and vnsearcheable:

⁷because thou art the Lord the Highest, benigne, long suffering, and very merciful, and sory for the malices of men.

⁸Thou Lord according to the multitude of thy goodnes hast promised penance and remission to them that haue sinned against thee: and in the multitude of thy mercies thou hast decreed penance to sinners vnto saluation.

⁹Thou therefore Lord God of the iust, hast not set penance to the iust, Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, to them that haue not sinned against thee:

¹⁰but thou hast sette penance to me a sinner: because I haue sinned aboue the number of the sand of the sea.

¹¹Myne iniquities are multiplied Lord, myne iniquities are multiplied: & I am not worthie to behold and see the height of heauen for the multitude of myne iniquities.

¹²I am crooked with a great bend of yron, that I can not lift vp my head, & I haue no respiration: because I haue stirred vp thy wrath, and haue done euil before thee: I haue not done thy wil, and I haue not kept thy commandementes: I haue set abominations, and haue multiplied offences.

¹³And now I bowe the knee of my hart, beseching goodnes of thee.

¹⁴I haue sinned Lord, I haue sinned: and I doe acknowledge myne iniquities.

¹⁵I aske beseching thee: Forgeue me Lord, forgeue me: and destroy me not together with myne iniquities, nor reserue euils for me being angrie for euer, nor condemne me into the lowest partes of the earth. Because thou art the God, the God of the penitent: and in me thou shalt shew al thy goodnes: because thou shalt saue me vnworthie according to thy great mercie: and I wil prayse thee alwayes al the dayes of my lyfe: because al the powre of the heauens prayseth thee, and to thee is glorie for euer and euer. Amen.