⁹ Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,

¹⁵ stedfast `is' the word, and of all acceptation worthy, that Christ Jesus came to the world to save sinners -- first of whom I am;

³² and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;

²⁵ For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty.

²⁰ And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,

¹⁷ `And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!

¹⁸ having risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin -- to the heaven, and before thee,

¹⁹ and no more am I worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hirelings.

²⁸ And he seeth and turneth back, From all his transgressions that he hath done, He doth surely live, he doth not die,

²⁹ And the house of Israel have said, Not pondered is the way of the Lord, My ways -- are they not pondered? O house of Israel -- are not your ways unpondered?

³⁰ Therefore, each according to his ways I judge you, O house of Israel? An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Turn ye back, yea, turn yourselves back, From all your transgressions, And iniquity is not to you for a stumbling-block,

³¹ Cast from off you all your transgressions, By which ye have transgressed, And make to you a new heart, and a new spirit, And why do ye die, O house of Israel?

³⁹ What -- sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin?

⁴⁰ We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.

¹² For our transgressions have been multiplied before Thee, And our sins have testified against us, For our transgressions `are' with us, And our iniquities -- we have known them.

⁷¹ Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.

⁶⁷ Before I am afflicted, I -- I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.

¹² O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,

¹⁰ Declare them guilty, O God, Let them fall from their own counsels, In the abundance of their transgressions Drive them away, Because they have rebelled against Thee.

² I say unto God, `Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive `with' me.

¹¹ and Jehovah bringeth in against them the heads of the host that the king of Asshur hath, and they capture Manasseh among the thickets, and bind him with brazen fetters, and cause him to go to Babylon.

¹² And when he is in distress he hath appeased the face of Jehovah his God, and is humbled exceedingly before the God of his fathers,

¹³ and prayeth unto Him, and He is entreated of him, and heareth his supplication, and bringeth him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom, and Manasseh knoweth that Jehovah -- He `is' God.

²¹ `And Jehovah hath shewed himself wroth with me because of your words, and sweareth to my not passing over the Jordan, and to my not going in unto the good land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance;

²² for I am dying in this land; I am not passing over the Jordan, and ye are passing over, and have possessed this good land.