Prayer of Manasseh 7–8

For thou art the Lord Most High, of great compassion,

long-suffering and abundant in mercy, and repentest thee for the evils of men.

Thou, therefore, O Lord, that art the God of the righteous, hast not appointed repentance unto the righteous, unto Abraham, and Isaac and Jacob, which have not sinned against thee:

But thou hast appointed repentance unto me that am a sinner;

For the sins I have sinned are more in number than the sands of the sea.