KJV King James Version
Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: [are they] not in thy book?
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Psalm 56:8
Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: [are they] not in thy book?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle—are they not in Your book?
WEB World English Bible
You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren’t they in your book?
ASV American Standard Version
Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
My wandering Thou hast counted, Thou—place Thou my tear in Thy bottle, Are they not in Thy book?
Surrounding context — Psalm 56
5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.
6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in [thine] anger cast down the people, O God.
8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: [are they] not in thy book?
9 When I cry [unto thee], then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God [is] for me.
10 In God will I praise [his] word: in the LORD will I praise [his] word.
11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
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2 Kings 20:5Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.Malachi 3:16Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard [it], and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.Psalm 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I [am] a stranger with thee, [and] a sojourner, as all my fathers [were].Revelation 7:17For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.Psalm 126:5-6They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.Matthew 10:30But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.Psalm 139:16Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all [my members] were written, [which] in continuance were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of them.Psalm 121:8The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.Hebrews 11:13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of [them], and embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.Isaiah 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.Job 16:20My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God.Revelation 20:12And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.Psalm 105:13-14When they went from one nation to another, from [one] kingdom to another people;1 Samuel 22:1-5David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father’s house heard [it], they went down thither to him.Hebrews 11:38(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and [in] mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the earth.1 Samuel 27:1And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: [there is] nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.Numbers 33:2-56And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these [are] their journeys according to their goings out.1 Samuel 19:18So David 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.
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