God’s Word Translation
Psalms 56:8
8(You have kept a record of my wanderings. Put my tears in your bottle. They are already in your book.)
Psalms 56:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
- New International Version (NIV)Record my misery; list my tears on your scroll— are they not in your record?
- English Standard Version (ESV)You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?
- New King James Version (NKJV)You number my wanderings; Put my tears into Your bottle; Are they not in Your book?
Context of Psalms 56:8
6They attack, and then they hide. They watch my every step as they wait to take my life. 7With the wrong they do, can they escape? O God, angrily make the nations fall. (You have kept a record of my wanderings. Put my tears in your bottle. They are already in your book.) 9Then my enemies will retreat when I call ⌞to you⌟. This I know: God is on my side. 10I praise God’s word. I praise the Lord’s word.
Read all of Psalms 56Psalms 56:8 word by word
נֹדִי֮ סָפַ֪רְתָּ֫ה אָ֥תָּה שִׂ֣ימָה דִמְעָתִ֣י בְנֹאדֶ֑ךָ הֲ֝לֹ֗א בְּסִפְרָתֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 56:8
- Psalms 105:13they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
- Psalms 121:8The Lord guards you as you come and go, now and forever.
- Numbers 33:2At the Lord’s command Moses wrote down the places where they went as they traveled. This is the list:
- 1 Samuel 19:18David escaped and went to Samuel at Ramah. He told Samuel everything Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to the pastures and lived there.
- 1 Samuel 22:1So David escaped from that place and fled to the cave at Adullam. When his brothers and all ⌞the rest⌟ of his family heard about it, they went to him.
- 1 Samuel 27:1David said to himself, “One of these days Saul will sweep me away. The best thing for me to do is to make sure that I escape to Philistine territory. Then Saul will give up looking all over Israel for me, and I’ll escape from him.”
- Isaiah 63:9In all their troubles he was troubled, and he was the Messenger who saved them. In his love and compassion he reclaimed them. He always held them and carried them in the past.
- 2 Corinthians 11:26Because I’ve traveled a lot, I’ve faced dangers from raging rivers, from robbers, from my own people, and from other people. I’ve faced dangers in the city, in the open country, on the sea, and from believers who turned out to be false friends.
- Hebrews 11:8Faith led Abraham to obey when God called him to go to a place that he would receive as an inheritance. Abraham left his own country without knowing where he was going.
- Psalms 39:12Listen to my prayer, O Lord. Open your ear to my cry for help. Do not be deaf to my tears, for I am a foreign resident with you, a stranger like all my ancestors.
- Psalms 126:5Those who cry while they plant will joyfully sing while they harvest.
- 2 Kings 20:5“Go back and say to Hezekiah, leader of my people, ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: I’ve heard your prayer. I’ve seen your tears. Now I’m going to heal you. The day after tomorrow you will go to the Lord’s temple.
- Job 16:20the spokesman for my thoughts. My eyes drip ⌞with tears⌟ to God
- Revelation 7:17The lamb in the center near the throne will be their shepherd. He will lead them to springs filled with the water of life, and God will wipe every tear from their eyes.”
- Psalms 139:16Your eyes saw me when I was still an unborn child. Every day ⌞of my life⌟ was recorded in your book before one of them had taken place.
- Malachi 3:16Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord paid attention and listened. A book was written in his presence to be a reminder to those who feared the Lord and respected his name.
Commentaries on Psalms 56:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Thou tellest my wanderings - Thou seest how often I am obliged to shift the place of my retreat. I am hunted every where; but thou numberest all my hiding-places, and seest how often I am in danger of losing my life. Put thou my tears into thy bottle - Here is an allusion to a very ancient custom, which we know long obtained among the Greeks and Romans, of putting the tears which were shed for the death of any person into small phials, called…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Thou tellest my wanderings - Thou dost “number” or “recount” them; that is, in thy own mind. Thou dost keep an account of them; thou dost notice me as I am driven from one place to another to find safety. “My wanderings,” to Gath, 1 Samuel 21:10; to the cave of Adullam, 1 Samuel 22:1; to Mizpeh, in Moab, 1 Samuel 22:3; to the forest of Hareth, 1 Samuel 22:5; to Keilah, 1 Samuel 23:5; to the wilderness of Ziph, 1 Samuel 23:14; to the wilderness of Maon, 1…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-13Verses 8-13 The heavy and continued trials through which many of the Lord's people have passed, should teach us to be silent and patient under lighter crosses. Yet we are often tempted to repine and despond under small sorrows. For this we should check ourselves. David comforts himself, in his distress and fear, that God noticed all his grievances and all his griefs. God has a bottle and a book for his people's tears, both the tears for their sins, and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8The psalmist uses wordplay with two similar Hebrew words: wanderings (nod) and bottle (no’d).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. God is mindful of his exile and remembers his tears. The custom of bottling the tears of mourners as a memorial, which has existed in some Eastern nations, may explain the figure.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 56
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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