Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Get up and go toward the south on the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." This is desolate.

Now send men to Joppa, and send for Simon whose surname is Peter.

He is staying as a guest with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is beside the sea."

And he related to us how he had seen the angel in his house, standing and saying to him, 'Send men to Joppa, and send for Simon whose surname is Peter,

But the brothers, learning about it, brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.

And Barnabas went forth to Tarsus to seek out Saul,

But Paul said, "I am a Jew from Tarsus of Cilicia, a citizen of no obscure city; and I request of you, permit me to speak to the people."

"I am indeed a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been educated according to the exactness of the law of our forefathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today.

And it shall be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."

Repent therefore from this your wickedness, and make petition to God, if perhaps the intent of your heart will be forgiven you.

And there you shall seek the Lord your God, and you shall find Him whenever you shall seek Him with all your heart, and with all your soul in your affliction.

And when he was afflicted, he sought the face of the Lord his God, and was greatly humbled before the face of the God of his fathers;

and he prayed to Him. And He hearkened to him, and listened to his cry, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. And Manasseh knew that the Lord, He is God.

And the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to God, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the God of Israel,

behold, [they are] in the account of his prayer. And [God] hearkened to him. And all his sins, and his backslidings, and the spots on which he built the high places, and set there groves and graven images, before he repented, behold, they are written in the books of the seers.

He spares also his soul from death, and does not allow him to fall in war.

And he shall not be able to take any food, though his soul shall desire meat;

His soul also draws near to death, and his life is in Hades.

He will support him, that he should not perish, and will restore his body as [fresh] plaster upon a wall; and He will fill his bones with marrow.

And he shall pray to the Lord, and his prayer shall be accepted by Him; he shall enter with a cheerful countenance, with a full expression [of] [praise]: for He will render to men their due.

Deliver my soul, that it may not go to destruction, and my life shall see the light.

Because I kept silence, my bones waxed old, from my crying all the day.

I acknowledged my sin, and hid not my iniquity; I said, I will confess my iniquity to the Lord; and You forgave the ungodliness of my heart. Pause.

For the end, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; and He attended to me, and hearkened to my supplication.

And He brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay; and He set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps.

And call upon Me in the day of affliction; and I shall deliver you, and you shall glorify Me. Pause.

A Song of Degrees. Out of the depths have I cried to You, O Lord.

If You, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

The sacrifices of the ungodly are an abomination to the Lord, but the prayers of them that walk honestly are acceptable to Him.

Seek the Lord, and when you find Him, call upon Him; and when He draws near to you,

let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels; and let him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for He shall abundantly pardon your sins.

And pray to Me, and I will hearken to you; and you shall earnestly seek Me, and you shall find Me;

for you shall seek Me with your whole heart.

I have heard the sound of Ephraim lamenting, [and saying], You have chastened me, and I was chastened; I as a calf was not [willingly] taught: turn me, and I shall turn; for You [are] the Lord my God.

Ephraim is a beloved son, a pleasing child to Me: for because My words are in him, I will surely remember him. Therefore I made haste [to help] him. I will surely have mercy upon him, says the Lord.

[ 2:2] And Jonah prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the whale,

[ 2:4] For You have cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: all Your billows and Your waves have passed upon me.

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and compassion: and they shall look upon Me, because they have mocked Me, and they shall make lamentation for Him, as for a beloved [friend], and they shall grieve intensely, as for a firstborn son.

"Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.

For everyone that asks receives, and he that seeks finds, and to him that knocks, it shall be opened.

"So I say to you, ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.

For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

And God, shall He not execute justice for His own elect, who cry out day and night to Him, and yet He is patient with them?

Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised the others:

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank You that I am not like other men--swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

And the tax collector, standing far away, would not so much as lift his eyes towards heaven, but beat on his chest, saying, 'God, be merciful to me a sinner!'

Then he said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when You come in Your kingdom."

And Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise."

Jesus answered and said to her, "If you had known the gift of God, and who it is that says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given to you living water."