⁹ And for three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank.

¹⁶ “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for ^(A)three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, ^(B)and if I perish, I perish.”^[a]

The People of Nineveh Repent

⁶ The word reached^[a] the king of Nineveh, and ^(A)he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, ^(B)and sat in ashes. ⁷ And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, ^(C)“By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor ^(D)beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, ⁸ but let man and ^(E)beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. ^(F)Let everyone turn from his evil way and from ^(G)the violence that is in his hands.

¹⁸ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and ^(A)his prayer to his God, and the words of ^(B)the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, behold, they are in the ^(C)Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. ¹⁹ And his prayer, and how ^(D)God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites ^(E)on which he built high places and set up the ^(F)Asherim and the images, before ^(G)he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.^[a]

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.

¹¹ And the Lord said to him, “Rise and go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas look for a man ^(A)of Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying, ¹² and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and ^(B)lay his hands on him so that he might regain his sight.”