In my alarm I said, "Everyone is a liar."

Saul went along one side of the mountain and David and his men went along the other side. Even though David was hurrying to get away from Saul, Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them.

David said to himself, "One of these days I'll be swept away by Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape immediately to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me everywhere in Israel, and I'll escape from him."

LORD, do not let me be disgraced when I call on You. Let the wicked be disgraced; let them be silent in Sheol.

Your wrath sweeps over me; Your terrors destroy me.

Then I said: Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips and live among a people of unclean lips, [and] because my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.

I said: In the prime of my life I must go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the rest of my years.

My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom. You make an end of me from day until night.

Zion says, "The LORD has abandoned me; The Lord has forgotten me!"

how much less when you complain that you do not see Him, [that your] case is before Him and you are waiting for Him.

Water flooded over my head, and I thought: I'm going to die!

I called on Your name, Yahweh, from the depths of the Pit.

Then He said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look how they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.

But I said: I have been banished from Your sight, yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.

The LORD has heard my plea for help; the LORD accepts my prayer.

So He brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze [shackles], and took him to Babylon.

He prayed to Him, so He heard his petition and granted his request, and brought him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom. So Manasseh came to know that the LORD is God.

As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer came to You, to Your holy temple.

but as for me, I will sacrifice to You with a voice of thanksgiving. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD!

During His earthly life, He offered prayers and appeals, with loud cries and tears, to the One who was able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.