Psalms 56:8
Thou hast counted my wandrings: put my teares into thy bottel: are they not in thy register?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
In Context
7They thinke they shall escape by iniquitie: O God, cast these people downe in thine anger.
9When I cry, then mine enemies shall turne backe: this I know, for God is with me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:18So Dauid fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him: and he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.
1 Samuel 27:1And Dauid said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: is it not better for me that I saue my selfe in the lande of the Philistims, and that Saul may haue no hope of me to seeke me any more in all the coastes of Israel, and so escape out of his hand?
Job 16:20My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.
Psalms 105:13And walked about from nation to nation, from one kingdome to another people,
Psalms 126:5They that sowe in teares, shall reape in ioy.
Isaiah 63:9In all their troubles he was troubled, and the Angel of his presence saued them: in his loue and in his mercie he redeemed them, and he bare them and caried them alwayes continually.
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 →