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Psalms 56:8

Thou tellest my wanderings, counting how often and how far David had to flee before his enemies; put Thou my tears into Thy bottle, carefully measuring and preserving them as a record of his misery; are they not in Thy book? calculated and stored in the memory of the Lord.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 56:8. _THOU TELLEST MY WANDERINGS_] Thou seest how often I am obliged to _shift the place_ of my _retreat_. I am hunted every where; but thou _numberest_ all my _hiding-places_, and seest...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THOU TELLEST MY WANDERINGS - Thou dost “number” or “recount” them; that is, in thy own mind. Thou dost keep an account of them; thou dost notice me as I am driven from one place to another to find saf...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 56 The Faithfulness of God, the Comfort of His People _ 1. Trust and Comfort (Psalms 56:1)_ 2. Praise for anticipated deliverance (Psalms 56:10) These five Psalms which are grouped together...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LVI. A PRAYER AGAINST STRONG, NUMEROUS, AND CRAFTY FOES. Psalms 56:2. For enemies read they that lie in wait for me (_mg.),_ PROUDLY: read bitterly. Psalms 56:4. Will praise his word, _i.e._ the fulf...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TELLEST. recordest. WANDERINGS... BOTTLE. Figure of speech _Paronomasia._ App-6. Hebrew. _nodi... ben'odeka._ THY BOTTLE. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. Tears of mourners were thus colle...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The second division of the Psalm is similar to the first: a description of present distress, and prayer for help, followed by an expression of perfect confidence in God's protection....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Thou tellest my wanderings_ Thou countest the days and adventures of my fugitive life, while I am driven from my home as a wanderer and vagabond (Psalms 36:11, notes); not one of them escapes Thy not...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THOU TELLEST MY WANDERINGS— David's whole life, from his victory over Goliath till the death of Saul, was almost entirely spent in wandering from place to place. He was now in exile at Gath; he comfor...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 56 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Song by David in Captivity. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 56:1-3, In a few words, David Describes his Captive Condition, and Composes a _Refrain_ of Praise, Stanza II., P...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THOU TELLEST MY WANDERINGS: PUT THOU MY TEARS INTO THY BOTTLE: ARE THEY NOT IN THY BOOK?_ Thou tellest my wanderings - i:e., Thou takest note of my movements in 'my flight' from my home and country....

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    56:8 countest (b-2) Or 'recountest.' bottle. (c-10) There is a paronomasia in this verse with _ Nod_ , 'wandering,' and _ N _ , 'bottle' (i.e. a leathern sack)....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Title.—(RV) 'For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. A _Psalm_ of David: Michtam: when the Philistines took him in Gath.' For Michtam see on Psalms 16. JONATH ELEM REHOKIM ('the dove of th...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    TELLEST] countest. PUT THOU MY TEARS] or, 'my tears are put.' THY BOTTLE] or 'skin.' God treasures His servants' tears as if they were water or wine. St. Bernard says, 'the tears of penitents are the...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WANDERINGS. — Rather, in the singular, _wandering,_ which, from the parallelism with “tears,” must mean “mental restlessness,” the “tossings to and fro of the mind.” Symmachus, “my inmost things.” PUT...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 56:9]_ נֹדִי֮ סָפַ֪רְתָּ֫ה אָ֥תָּה שִׂ֣ימָה דִמְעָתִ֣י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 56:1 THE superscription dates this psalm from the time of David's being in Gath. Probably his first stay there is meant, during which he had recourse to feigned insanity in order to secure his...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “WHAT CAN MAN DO UNTO ME?” Psalms 56:1 This psalm was composed under the same circumstances as Psalms 34:1. See 1 Samuel 21:1. What a strange medley is here shown-David feigning madness and composing...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The keynote of this psalm is the concluding declaration of the previous one, "I will trust in Thee." Here again are evident the same circumstances of oppression (verses Psa 56:5-7). The song opens and...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my (g) tears into thy bottle: [are they] not in thy book? (g) If God stores the tears of his saints, much more will he remember their blood, to avenge it: and tho...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _My. This and the following verses, from the 107th psalm. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    What a sweet thought is here suggested of God's remembrance of his people's affliction! It is an interesting figure of speech, of bottling their tears: but the sense is, they are remembered. And woe w...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _‘HE CARETH FOR YOU’_ ‘Thou tellest my wanderings: put Thou my tears into Thy bottle: are they not in Thy book?’ Psalms 56:8 I. THE HUMAN SIDE OF LIFE.—It is described under two forms: wandering an...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    8._Thou hast taken account of my wanderings _The words run in the form of an abrupt prayer. Having begun by requesting God to consider his tears, suddenly, as if he had obtained what he asked, he decl...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Psalms 56 expresses the sense of the bitter and relentless enmity of the wicked, but the tears of the godly are put in God's bottle. God is owned as the Most High, the title of promise but not of cove...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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 numbe...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: [are they] not in thy book? Ver. 8. _Thou tellest my wanderings_] Or, thou cipherest up my flittings, and hast them in _numerato,_ ready...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Thou tellest my wanderings_ “Thou art perfectly acquainted, I am sure, how often I have been forced to flee, like a vagabond, from place to place; which hath cost me many a tear. Good Lord, preserve...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-13 The heavy and continued trials through which many of the Lord's people have passed, should teach us to be silent and patient under lighter crosses. Yet we are often tempted to repine and despond...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    MY WANDERINGS: here I have been hunted from place to place, and am now driven hither. PUT MY TEARS INTO THY BOTTLE; regard, and remember, and pity them. ARE THEY NOT IN THY BOOK? but why do I pray to...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 56:8 number H5608 (H8804) wanderings H5112 Put H7760 (H8798) tears H1832 bottle H4997 book H5612...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    AN EXPRESSION OF HIS TRUST IN GOD IN THE FACE OF HIS ENEMIES (PSALMS 56:8). His confidence lies in the fact that he knows that he is the chosen of YHWH, that God is keeping count of his wanderings, an...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 56:8 I. The human side of life. It is described under two forms: wandering and tears; and the division, though brief, is very comprehensive. Life has its active part in wanderings, its passive...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 56:1. _Be merciful unto me, O God for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me._ «Man has no mercy upon me, but, O God, be thou merciful unto me! If thy justice doth for a whil...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam (a golden Psalm) of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Psalms 56:1. _Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up: he figh...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: David pours out complaint about enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: When we are surrounded on all sides with difficulties and dangers because of enemies, we have but one retreat t...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    The title of this psalm, which relates to the manner of singing and playing, is upon the remote and silent dove. To which _michtam_ is added, the golden ode of David. In the LXX, the title of this and...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thou tellest my wanderings: put Thou my tears into Thy bottle; are they not in Thy book?_ LIFE ON THE HUMAN SIDE AND THE DIVINE There is a description of life given in the Bible which has been objec...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up._ THE DEPRECABLE AND THE DESIRABLE I. The deprecable in relation to man. 1. Craven-heartedness. A man whose heart is morally sound is bold a...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 56:1. Many take this to be an individual lament, but it could also be a psalm of anticipated thanksgiving. The description of troubles and prayer changes into gratitude that...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 56:8 God keeps account of the TEARS of his faithful ones. He is FOR those who trust in him. ⇐

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“To the Chief Musician upon Jonath-Elem-Rechokim.” The phrase “_Jonath-Elem-Rechokim_” occurs nowhere else in the Bible; and Biblical critics are by no means agreed as t...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THIS and the following have been called "twin psalms." They begin with the same words, are nearly of the same length, and have each a refrain which divides them into two portions. Formally,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Psa 56:1-13. This is the prayer of David when he heard a mourning dove. That is, a mourning: m-o-u-r-n-i-n-g dove, out in the distant terebinth trees. He no doubt heard these doves cooing off in the d...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 19:18; 1 Samuel 22:1; 1 Samuel 27:1; 2 Corinthians 11:26;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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?...

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