Psalms 56:8

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“You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?”

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BSBPD

“You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“My wandering Thou hast counted, Thou--place Thou my tear in Thy bottle, Are they not in Thy book?”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 56:8 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 33:2At the LORD’s command, Moses recorded the stages of their journey. These are the stages listed by their starting points:
  2. 1 Samuel 19:18So David ran away and escaped. And he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.
  3. 1 Samuel 22:1So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there.
  4. 1 Samuel 27:1David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”
  5. 2 Kings 20:5“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.
  6. Job 16:20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
  7. Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
  8. Psalms 105:13they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
  9. Psalms 121:8The LORD will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.
  10. Psalms 126:5Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
  11. Psalms 139:16Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
  12. Isaiah 63:9In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
  13. Jeremiah 18:23But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.
  14. Malachi 3:16At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.
  15. Matthew 10:30And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
  16. 2 Corinthians 11:26In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,
  17. Hebrews 11:8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
  18. Hebrews 11:13All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
  19. Hebrews 11:38The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.
  20. Revelation 7:17For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”
  21. Revelation 20:12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.

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