Psalms 56:8
\56:7\By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. In wrath, O God, let the peoples be made low.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:18So David went in flight and got away and came to Ramah, to Samuel, and gave him an account of all Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and were living in Naioth.
1 Samuel 27:1And David said to himself, Some day death will come to me by the hand of Saul: the only thing for me to do is to get away into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will give up hope of taking me in any part of the land of Israel: and so I may be able to get away from him.
Job 16:20My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
Psalms 105:13When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people.
Psalms 126:5Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.
Isaiah 63:9It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 56:2-8
Prayer for Help under Oppression; Confidence in God. 1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. 2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High. 3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. 4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. 5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil. 6 They gather themselves together, they hide… Read the whole commentary →