even when I was afraid and said, "No one can be trusted."

Saul and his men were on one side of the hill, separated from David and his men, who were on the other side. They were hurrying to get away from Saul and his men, who were closing in on them and were about to capture them.

David said to himself, "One of these days Saul will kill me. The best thing for me to do is to escape to Philistia. Then Saul will give up looking for me in Israel, and I will be safe."

I call to you, LORD; don't let me be disgraced. May the wicked be disgraced; may they go silently down to the world of the dead.

Your furious anger crushes me; your terrible attacks destroy me.

I said, "There is no hope for me! I am doomed because every word that passes my lips is sinful, and I live among a people whose every word is sinful. And yet, with my own eyes I have seen the King, the LORD Almighty."

I thought that in the prime of life I was going to the world of the dead, Never to live out my life.

My life was cut off and ended, Like a tent that is taken down, Like cloth that is cut from a loom. I thought that God was ending my life.

But the people of Jerusalem said, "The LORD has abandoned us! He has forgotten us."

Job, you say you can't see God; but wait patiently---your case is before him.

Water began to close over me, and I thought death was near.

"From the bottom of the pit, O LORD, I cried out to you,

God said to me, "Mortal man, the people of Israel are like these bones. They say that they are dried up, without any hope and with no future.

I thought I had been banished from your presence and would never see your holy Temple again.

he listens to my cry for help and will answer my prayer.

So the LORD let the commanders of the Assyrian army invade Judah. They captured Manasseh, stuck hooks in him, put him in chains, and took him to Babylon.

God accepted Manasseh's prayer and answered it by letting him go back to Jerusalem and rule again. This convinced Manasseh that the LORD was God.

When I felt my life slipping away, then, O LORD, I prayed to you, and in your holy Temple you heard me.

But I will sing praises to you; I will offer you a sacrifice and do what I have promised. Salvation comes from the LORD!"

In his life on earth Jesus made his prayers and requests with loud cries and tears to God, who could save him from death. Because he was humble and devoted, God heard him.