Psalms 56:8 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 56:8

You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book?

KJV

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

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Commentary

5 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Thou tellest my wanderings,.... Not his sins; though these are aberrations or wanderings from the ways of God's commandments; yet these are not told by the Lord: he takes no account of them; the number of them is not kept by him; they are blotted out, cast behind his back, and into the depths of the sea; though sometimes his people think they are told and numbered by him, Job 14:16; but David's moves and flights from place to place are meant, through Saul's pursuit of him, as a partridge on the mountains. Some writers reckon twelve of these moves.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Wanderings - How I have been hunted from place to place. Put - Regard and pity them. Are they not - But why do I pray to God to do that which he hath already done?

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Of all the impressions thus made upon his spirit. When he was wandering he was often weeping, and therefore prays, " Put thou my tears into thy bottle, to be preserved and looked upon; nay, I know they are in thy book, the book of thy remembrance." God has a bottle and a book for his people's tears, both those for their sins and those for their afflictions.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 3 (1872)

Thou tellest my wanderings. Every step which the fugitive had taken when pursued by his enemies, was not only observed but thought worthy of counting and recording. We perhaps are so confused after a long course of trouble, that we hardly know where we have or where we have not been; but the omniscient and considerate Father of our spirits remembers all in detail; for he has counted them over as men count their gold, for even the trial of our faith is precious in his sight. Put thou my tears into thy bottle.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
נֹדִי֮	no.Di	wandering my	H5112 →
סָפַ֪רְתָּ֫ה	sa.Far.Tah	you have taken account of	H5608 →
אָ֥תָּה	'A.tah	you	H859 →
שִׂ֣ימָה	Si.mah	put !	H7760 →
דִמְעָתִ֣י	dim.'a.Ti	tear[s] my	H1832 →
בְנֹאדֶ֑ךָ	ve.no.De.kha	in skin-bottle your	H4997 →
הֲ֝לֹ֗א	ha.Lo'	¿ not	H3808 →
בְּסִפְרָתֶֽךָ׃	be.sif.ra.Te.kha	[is it] in scroll your	H5612 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 7:17
For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”
leads to
- John 7:37–38
  On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
- Psalms 36:8–9
  They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.
- John 4:14
  But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
- Psalms 23:1–2
  The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
- John 4:11
  “Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water?
Through
2 Kings 20:5
“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I…
leads to
- Psalms 66:19–20
  But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer.
- Isaiah 38:5
  “Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to…
Through
Malachi 3:16
At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD…
leads to
- Revelation 20:12
  And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their…

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Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Psalms