Psalms 56:8
My heart, O God, is ready, 1 My heart is ready: I will sing, yea will sing psalms. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
In Context
9Awake, my glory; 1 Awake, psaltery and harp: 1 I will awake early. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:18So David fled, and escaped, and comes to Samuel to Ramah, and tells him all that Saul had done to him: and Samuel and David went, and dwelt in Naioth in Ramah.
1 Samuel 27:1And David said in his heart, Now shall I be one day delivered for death into the hands of Saul; and there is no good thing for me unless I should escape into the land of the Philistines, and Saul should cease from seeking me through every coast of Israel: so I shall escape out of his hand.
Job 16:20Let my supplication come to the Lord, 1 And let mine eye weep before him. 1
Psalms 105:13They made haste, they forgot his works; 1 They waited not for his counsel. 1
Psalms 126:5Blessed is the man who shall satisfy his desire with them: 1 They shall not be ashamed when they shall speak to their enemies in the gates.
Isaiah 63:9out of all their affliction: not an ambassador, nor a messenger, but himself saved them, because he loved them and spared them: he himself redeemed them, and took them up, and lifted them up all the days of old.
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 →