Psalms Chapter 56 verse 8 Holy Bible
Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book?
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You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record?
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*Thou* countest my wanderings; put my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
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Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
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Shall they escape by iniquity; in thy anger cast down the people, O God.
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You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren't they in your book?
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My wandering Thou hast counted, Thou -- place Thou my tear in Thy bottle, Are they not in Thy book?
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Psalms 56 : 8 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - Thou tellest my wanderings; i.e. thou, O God, takest account of my wretched wandering life (1 Samuel 21-30), and notest each occasion when I am forced to move from one city, or cave, or wilderness to another. Put thou my tears into thy bottle. Take also note of my tears - let them not pass unheeded. Rather, gather them drop by drop, and store them, as costly wine is stored, in a flask. The thought, thus dressed in a metaphor, was, no doubt (as Professor Cheyne observes), "Store them up in thy memory." Are they not in thy book? i.e. hast thou not anticipated my request, and entered an account of every tear that I have shed, in thy book of records (comp. Psalm 69:28; Psalm 139:16)?
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) 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 thou my tears into thy bottle.--There is a play of words in the original of "bottle," and "wandering." We must not, of course, think of the lachrymatories, as they are called, of glass, which have been found in Syria (see Thomson, Land and Book, page 103). If these were really in any way connected with "tears," they must have formed part of funeral customs. The LXX., "Thou hast put my tears before thee," and Symmachus and Jerome, "put my tears in thy sight," suggest a corruption of the text; but, in any case, the poet's feeling here is that of Constance in Shakespeare's King John--"His grandam's wrongs, and not his mother's shames,Draw these heaven-moving pearls from his poor eyes,Which heaven shall take in nature of a fee;Ay, with those crystal beads Heaven shall be brib'dTo do him justice and revenge on you."Book.--As in Psalm 139:16. Some prefer "calculation."