If I have been wicked, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head; I am full of disgrace. Pay attention to my affliction!

For I know nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord.

But indeed, I would seek the Mighty God, and before God I would lay out my case;

If you would earnestly seek the Mighty God and make your supplication to the Almighty,

I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why You contend with me.

You shall make your supplication to Him, He will hear you, and you shall make good your vows.

For has anyone said to the Mighty God, I have endured; I will offend no more;

teach me what I do not see; if I have done injustice, I will do no more?

whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows the plague of his own heart, and spreads out his hands toward this house:

then hear in Heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone have known the hearts of all the sons of men),

and prayed to Him; and He was entreated of him, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh recognized that Jehovah was God.

They shall come with weeping, and with supplications I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.

And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

O my God, bow down Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by Your name. For we do not make our supplications before You on account of our righteousness, but because of Your great mercies.

There the upright could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but gave Himself over to Him who judges righteously;