¹⁵ Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.

¹⁵ If I be wicked, woe unto me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; Being filled with ignominy, And looking upon mine affliction.

⁵ If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty;

²³ who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered threatened not; but committed `himself' to him that judgeth righteously:

⁴ For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

¹⁸ O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousness, but for thy great mercies' sake.

³ And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

⁹ They shall come with weeping; and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.

³¹ For hath any said unto God, I have borne `chastisement', I will not offend `any more':

³² That which I see not teach thou me: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?

⁷ There the upright might reason with him; So should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

²⁷ Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he will hear thee; And thou shalt pay thy vows.

² I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me.

⁸ But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause;

¹³ And he prayed unto him; and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah he was God.

³⁸ what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, `or' by all thy people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:

³⁹ then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)