enemies, and they shall be for a prey and a spoil to all that hate them, is because they have done evil before mine eyes, because they have been pro- voking from that day that I have brought out their fathers from Egypt until this day. Manasseh also shed much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from rim to rim with the slain, because of the sins which he com- mitted ; and he made Judah to sin in doing evil before the Lord." "And He brought against them the captains of Assyria ; and they took Manasseh and bound him, and threw chains about him and carried him to Babylon in a copper star, and shut him up in prison, having completely chained and bound him in irons." Bread of husks was given to him by weight, and water mixed with vinegar in small measure, that he might be alive and afflicted and heavily troubled. " When he was much afflicted he sought the face of the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers." He prayed to the Lord God, and said : The Prayer of Manasseh.