Prayer of Manasseh 6-8

Common English Bible

⁶But your promised mercies
are beyond measure and imagination,
⁷    ^abecause you are the highest, Lord,
        kind, patient, and merciful,
    and you feel sorry over human troubles.

Syriac

^bYou, Lord, according to
your gentle grace,
    promised forgiveness to those
    who are sorry for their sins.
In your great mercy,
    you allowed sinners to turn
    from their sins and find salvation.
⁸Therefore, Lord,
God of those who do what is right,
    you didn’t offer
    Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
    who didn’t sin against you,
    a chance to change their hearts and lives.
But you offer me, the sinner,
the chance to change my heart and life,