1 Asenath's prayer and confession: 2 "Lord God of the righteous, who created the ages and gives life to everything, who gave the breath of life to all your creation, who brought invisible things into the light, who made all things and made visible things that had not appeared, 3 who lifted up the sky and established the earth on the waters, who set the great stones over the watery abyss, and these stones will not sink but will do your will to the end, because you, Lord, spoke the word and all things came into being, and your word, Lord, is the life of all your creation, 4 I flee to you for refuge, Lord my God, from now on; I will cry out to you, Lord, and I will confess my sins to you; I will pour out my plea to you, Master, and I will reveal my lawless deeds to you. 5 Spare me, Lord, spare me, because I committed many sins against you, I did lawless and ungodly things, I have said unspeakable and wicked things in your presence; my mouth, Lord, has been defiled by the sacrifices of the idols of the Egyptians, and by the food from their gods' table: 6 I sinned, Lord, I sinned in your presence, I acted in ungodly ways both knowingly and unknowingly, because I worshiped dead and deaf idols, 7 and I am not worthy to open my mouth to you, Lord. I, miserable Asenath, daughter of Pentephres the priest, the virgin and queen, was once proud and arrogant and prospered through my father's riches more than anyone else, but now I am an orphan, desolate and abandoned by everyone. I flee to you, Lord, and I offer my plea to you, and I will cry out to you. Rescue me from those pursuing me, Master, before they capture me; 8 for, as a small child who is afraid of someone runs to his father and mother, and his father stretches out his hands and lifts him up against his chest, in the same way, Lord, stretch out your undefiled and fearsome hands over me like a father who loves his child, and snatch me from the grasp of the supernatural enemy. 9 For look, the ancient and savage and cruel lion pursues me, because he is the father of the gods of the Egyptians, and the gods of those obsessed with idols are his children, and I have come to hate them, and I got rid of them, because they are a lion's children, and I threw all the Egyptian gods away from me and did away with them, and the lion, their father the devil, is angry with me and is trying to swallow me. 10 But you, Lord, rescue me from his grasp, and I shall be rescued from his mouth, before he can tear me apart and throw me into the blazing fire. The fire would throw me into a storm, and the storm would overwhelm me in darkness and throw me into the depths of the sea, and the great beast that has existed from eternity would swallow me, and I would perish forever. 11 Rescue me, Lord, before all these things happen to me; rescue me, Master, desolate and defenseless as I am, because my father and my mother have denied me and said, 'Asenath is not our daughter,' because I broke their gods in pieces and got rid of them, because I hated them completely. And now I am an orphan and desolate, and I have no other hope except you, Lord, nor any other refuge except your mercy, you friend of humanity, because you alone are the father of the orphans and the champion of the persecuted and the helper of the afflicted.⁠a Have mercy on me, Lord, and keep me pure and a virgin, forsaken and orphaned, because you alone, Lord, are a loving, good, and gentle father. For what father is as loving and good as you, Lord? 12 For look, all the houses of my father Pentephres which he has given me for an inheritance are temporary and passing away; but the houses of your inheritance, Lord, are imperishable and eternal."