⁴⁷ yet ^(A)if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, ^(B)‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’

^26 (A)“Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you ^(B)and cast your law behind their back ^(C)and killed your prophets, who ^(D)had warned them in order to turn them back to you, ^(E)and they committed great blasphemies. ^27 (F)Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemies, who made them suffer. ^(G)And in the time of their suffering they cried out to you and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them ^(H)saviors who saved them from the hand of their enemies. ^28 (I)But after they had rest they did evil again before you, and you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they turned and cried to you, you heard from heaven, ^(J)and many times you delivered them according to your mercies. ^29 (K)And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet ^(L)they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, ^(M)which if a person does them, he shall live by them, ^(N)and they turned a stubborn shoulder ^(O)and stiffened their neck and would not obey. ³⁰ Many years ^(P)you bore with them ^(Q)and warned them ^(R)by your Spirit through your prophets. ^(S)Yet they would not give ear. ^(T)Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

^6 (A)let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, ^(B)confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even ^(C)I and my father's house have sinned. ^7 (D)We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules ^(E)that you commanded your servant Moses. ⁸ Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, ^(F)I will scatter you among the peoples, ^9 (G)but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, ^(H)though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them ^(I)to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’ ^10 (J)They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand. ¹¹ O Lord, ^(K)let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.”

Now I was ^(L)cupbearer to the king.

⁶ saying:

“O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities ^(A)have risen higher than our heads, and our ^(B)guilt has ^(C)mounted up to the heavens. ^7 (D)From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great ^(E)guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, ^(F)and to utter shame, as it is today.

¹² And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God ^(A)and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. ¹³ He prayed to him, and ^(B)God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. ^(C)Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.

³⁷ yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’